Risk Intern Review

by GE (General Electric)

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Rating

2.3/5
  • The Role
    2.7
  • The Company
    2.4
  • The Culture
    1.8

    The Role

  • 1. To what extent did you enjoy your work placement or internship?

    • Overall I have enjoyed working on the material and topics I was working on. I did not enjoy having a remote manager with whom I have only met 3 times during the 7 months personally. My only training I have received was restricted to having handed over a policy manual. I had to write my own Standard Operating Procedures. I was thrown in on the deep end my manager leaving me with work with deadline and she leaving for 2 weeks holiday just the day I started the internship.

    3/5
  • 2. To what extent did you feel valued by your colleagues?

    • The team members in my managers team were scattered around Europe. I feel I fit in well with the immediate surroundings, but integration into the team was hard due to the remote nature of the work we were doing.

    2/5
  • 3. To what extent were you given support and guidance by management/your supervisor(s)?

    • Hardly any. As she was remote we had to be in touch over the phone. But she was always using her phone for conference call meetings. Support was offered in name but not in practice. I was left alone with the issues.

    2/5
  • 4. How busy were you on a daily basis?

    • Sometimes I had to do 14 hours sometimes i had nothing to do at all as we had to work on a quarterly reporting schedule. Projectwork in the meantime took up around 6 hours of my day.

    2/5
  • 5. How much responsibility were you given during your placement?

    • Considering I was an Intern a Lot. Contacting and requesting information from Chief executives of European subsidiaries. Arranging conference calls where everyone can attend and presenting data and using the requested information to enchance a dataset we already used for analysis.

    4/5
  • 6. To what extent did/will the skills you developed, and training you received, assist you in your degree studies and beyond?

    • I have learned a lot in a technical/company culture and personal perspective

    4/5

    The Company

  • 7. What was the general atmosphere in your office?

    • It is a huge building nice view, but noone really has time for small talk.

    2/5
  • 8. How well organised was the overall work placement or internship set up?

    • I was onboarded then chucked into the role with a full diary and email box. i have inherited a lot of responsibilities that another intern was doing 6 months before me and noone knew how to do them.

    4/5
  • 9. In terms of personal training and development, to what extent did the company or firm invest in you?

    • Nothing.

    1/5
  • 10. What were the perks on your work placement?

    • Flexi Time

    Subsidised/Company Gym

    Working from home
    4/5
  • 11. How appealing are future employment prospects within the organisation?

    • I would not want to work for a company who treats their interns and graduates as replacable administrators and analysts

    3/5

    The Culture

  • 12. Was there a good social scene amongst any fellow placement students/colleagues?

    • I was in contact with only 4 of the interns I have worked with on a general basis, But no organised night life or team building was arranged ever.

    2/5
  • 13. What was the cost of living and socialising in the area you worked in?

    • With London standards it was alright

    3/5
  • 14. What was the Nightlife like in the area you worked?

    • 3/5
  • 15. Were there many opportunities to get involved in activities outside of work?

    • 1/5
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Details

Commercial Banking, Investment Banking, Retail Banking, Banking, Financial Management

London

November 2013

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