Marketing Intern Review

by L'Oreal

Best Student Employer

Rating

4/5
  • Skills
    4.3
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    3.0
  • Your Impressions
    4.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Changes depending on the day, attending meetings, completing small tasks part of bigger projects, setting up own meetings with other teams, localising imagery, etc.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Yes definitely. Learned new skills of managing work relationships, how to handle work frustrations and software skills. Developed my own time management and soft skills.


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
  • 4/5

  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
  • 5/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Lots of responsibility. As you work and demonstrate your abilities, your managers and wider team will recognise this and trust you with more work and responsibility. It was great to feel trusted by your team as it really showed they valued your work and efforts.


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 4/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • Lots of support and guidance. I was luckily surrounded by other employees who had similar career progressions as myself at the start of their career, I saw many of them as my own mentor.


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
  • 4/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • Everyone is very friendly and happy to set up coffee chats with you despite being in different teams.


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 3/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 3/5

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 3/5

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 3/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I really enjoyed my placement year and I would recommend anyone to take a year out to do this. It is extremely different from university and gives you great experience. I feel so much more at ease knowing I did a year in industry as I know what to kind of expect after my studies.


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 5/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 5/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at L'Oreal
  • 4/5

  • 7. Would you recommend L'Oreal to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to L'Oreal
  • Don't get too caught up on your own direct line of work - try to see what other teams are up to! Both inside and outside your division.


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Marketing

London

July 2024


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