Biostatistics Placement Worker Review
by Amgen
Rating
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Skills
4.8
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
4.5
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Your Impressions
4.7
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at Amgen
- 7. Would you recommend Amgen to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Amgen
Overview
Biostatistician role involved using SAS and R to perform statistical analysis on trial data and other trial-related data. A fair amount of quality control work (verifying program outputs). Variety of different projects.
Skills
Learnt basic SAS (opportunity to get a SAS qualification during the placement) and improved my R knowledge. Training related to the drug development and clinical trial process was offered, so gained some understanding of this as well.
Responsibilities
Largely started off with quality control work so limited responsibility, but quickly progressed to tasks with more - e.g. leading a team working on a project.
Support & Guidance
Generally very easy to reach out to people for help - regular catchups with manager, and team members on projects are normally approachable and helpful.
Culture
Never had any issues with anyone at the company while I was there - found it a pleasant place to work. Worth mentioning that most people work remotely most of the time so office can be quite empty at times - can make networking quite difficult but more convenience and flexibility as a trade-off.
Your Impressions
I enjoyed the placement - I developed relevant skills and it was a pleasant place to work. The social side was somewhat lacking in the office but we were able to organise social events with the other placement students to compensate, and I also had the option to work remotely at times myself - the flexibility was very good.
Yes
Work on your programming if applying to one of the more technical roles, and try to make the most of the flexibility available.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Pharmaceutical
South East
August 2024
