Junior Data Scientist Review

As a Trainee Junior Data Scientist, my day-to-day responsibilities include fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) on proprietary datasets to enhance their performance. I actively participate in SCRUM ceremonies, such as daily stand-ups and sprint planning, to ensure our projects stay on track. Additionally, I assist with internal communications, ensuring clear and effective information flow within the team and across departments. My role involves close collaboration with cross-functional teams, including data engineers , analysts, and product managers, to align our data science initiatives with business goals. I also perform data analysis and maintain thorough documentation of our processes and progress.

Developed a strong understanding of LLMs and transformers. Got hands on experience with implementing models in PyTorch. Learnt how to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders. Enhanced my data wrangling skills with Python.

In Unilever, they treat you like an actual working member of the team not just an intern. I felt respected here; my work actually mattered. I was assigned several projects that required me to colloborate with a wide range of diferent people.

I received a lot of support from my line manager and was assigned a mentor that i could speak to weekly if i needed to. Everyone here is super friendly and open to communication. There are many other interns here (working in many different departments) if you need support from peers. Unilver has a diverse culture that prioritses friendliness.

Friendly and relaxed. Everyone including the senior managers are down to earth. There were times I was eating lunch with highly senior employees without realising it. Everyone works hard but they seem to enjoy their work too. The office plan is fairly open so once i ended up sitting with a completely different team (who I'd never seen before) and ended up getting a slice of a birthday cake. In unilever people seem really happy to be here.

I really enjoyed the experience. I made meaningful contributions to the team and acheived all of the objectives I was set. I made friends through the many social oppurtunities that unilever provided. I was only there for 3 months but it felt like 3 days and yet I acheived and learned so much.

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As always, be yourself and be present in the moment. Be an active listener--this will help in the assessment centre.