Summer Intern - Global Markets Review

by BNP Paribas

Rating

4.1/5
  • Skills
    4.3
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    4.0
  • Your Impressions
    4.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

    • The role involves a mix of desk and HR assigned projects and tasks, and shadowing, initiated independently. A typical day involves working on several different projects, shadowing in between to learn more about aspects of the business when free. Many of these projects involve liasing and presenting to staff in other parts of the business.

    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

    • Have improved my VBA and Python skills. Have gotten better at putting together trade ideas, and valuation of a variety of fixed income products in general. Overall, more confident in ability to perform relevant markets roles(e.g Trading)

  • 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?

    • 5/5
  • 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

    • 4/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

    • Given this was rotational, I was given limited responsibility. This is quite standard for the industry, given that you can’t really do much without the relevant trading/sales licenses.

  • 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?

    • A fair amount, but a lot of the support and guidance involved being proactive in setting up meetings and opportunities to learn and get more guidance.

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

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

    • 5/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

    • Very open, quite inclusive. And reasonably accommodating to juniors opinions.

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate the social opportunities?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

    • 5/5
  • 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 enjoyed it.

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

    • 4/5
  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations

    • 4/5
  • Please rate the future employment prospects at BNP Paribas

    • 4/5
  • 7. Would you recommend BNP Paribas to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to BNP Paribas

    • Definitely apply

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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Investment Banking

London

August 2024

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