Analytical Chemistry Summer Intern Review

by AstraZeneca

Rating

4.9/5
  • Skills
    4.8
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.8
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Worked within a team at Astrazeneca. I was given a 10 week project for my summer internship. This was mainly method development based.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Characterisation of a new technique. Experiment designing. Problem-solving every day. Confidence. Patience


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

  • 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
  • 5/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Yes. I lead my own project. So learnt the whole process. I was responsible for individuay planning all the experiments carried out as well as analysing the retrieved data.


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

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • A lot of support. No matter the problem, i was able to discuss it woth my supervisor, who was extremely patient with me and contributed to my skill development


  • 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?
  • 5/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • A very positive mindset. The no blame culture is a great example of giving the workers freedom and responsibility for their own actions. Everyone was very friendly in the workspace


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

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

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

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I very much enjoyed my internship. I was able to develop a much better understanding of all the necessary steps for method/experiment development. This was an exciting process and gave me new challenges every day.


  • 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 AstraZeneca
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend AstraZeneca to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to AstraZeneca
  • Be yourself. Do not be afraid to ask questions. Astrazeneca gives everyone an opportunity to learn


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Chemistry

North West

August 2024


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