Commercial Intern Review
by EDF Trading
Rating
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Skills
5.0
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
5.0
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Your Impressions
5.0
- 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 EDF Trading
- 7. Would you recommend EDF Trading to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to EDF Trading
Overview
My primary daily task was to work on my project on the systematic trading strategies desk. The first phase of this project was to research and implement a more robust performance assessment method for the systematic trading strategies. The second phase required me to optimise the performance of the systematic trading strategies. All implementation was done in python. I interacted with my colleagues in the Energy Markets Quantitative Analytics team every day.
Skills
I developed my coding skills in Python. I developed my communication and presentation skills. I developed my knowledge and understanding of financial maths, particularly surrounding systematic trading strategies.
Responsibilities
Yes, I was given a lot of responsibility as the project that I was working on was a real piece of work for the team that was critical for the development of their systematic trading strategies. I also presented to the Executive Committee who engaged with my presentation on the work that I had done and were interested in its future applications.
Support & Guidance
I received a lot of support and guidance. I had an excellent internship mentor that engaged with me and my project every day of my internship. The interns also had regular pre-arranged training days and teaching sessions.
Culture
Excellent. I did not meet a single person that was not friendly and welcoming. It was possible to message almost anyone in the company via MS Teams and arrange to meet.
Your Impressions
I thoroughly enjoyed the internship program.
Yes
Brush up on your coding skills as you will probably need them. Although you do not need to be from a computer science/software engineering background to succeed on an internship at EDF Trading.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Banking
London
September 2024
