Turbine Commodity Strategy - Summer Intern Review

Thoroughly enjoyable work - variety of different projects and able to see a lot of other work going on.

Colleagues were very helpful, friendly and felt very valued - the work which I was doing was presented to some very senior members of the company and so this added to the feeling of being valued by the colleagues.

Manager was superb - would always check-in just to make sure there were no problems and always open to questions (even the seemingly stupid ones!)

There was a very good level of work to be done - never a dull moment and because there were several projects that you could be doing there was always another thing to be doing.

A lot of responsibility several parts of the internship were updating systems that are to be used by the entire company.

The usual time management etc. But also due to the end of placement review they highlighted areas that I can improve and will be working on these in the coming year.

Very friendly - could have a laugh with the colleagues

Very good - first couple of days sat down with the rest of the team and the other interns working in the same team who were on a different site to explain where we fitted in etc. Also organised so that there was a mix of group projects and individual projects that was very useful.

Learnt a couple of new pieces of software which will serve me well in the future. As mentioned earlier they highlighted areas of improvement for me.

Very appealing - there is a good 'pipeline' from internship to graduate job which they explain to you while you are htere.

The Apprentice Association (AA) set up some social things to get to know each other at the start which was very good. There were a couple of other interns in my office and we ended up doing our own social things. Also a social with our manager and some of the graduate students which was also very nice.

I lived locally and commuted in at the cost of about a fiver a day so not bad at all. Socialising in Bristol was same price as most other areas for a pint!

Lots of good pubs that we went to with some of the other interns

Yes, there was a weekly newsletter with updates on activities for employees to get involved with - something for everyone. Weekly football practice, go-karting, cider festival, rugby, hockey etc. if you wanted to do something then it was easy enough to get people involved.