marketing intern Review

I really enjoyed my placement. The culture at work is great, with lots of fun events happening at the office which make coming into work really enjoyable.

Fully part of the team, not treated as an intern or temporary employee at all.

Support whenever needed, with the feeling that there is no question too stupid to ask. Support from both my manager and from the Talentum team who look after its interns and grads.

Varies from day to day - overall, busy but not too busy to be stressful or too much to cope with.

Lots of responsibility, as much as full time / permanent employees. But also lots of support if needed.

Skills for life - learned an excellent range of skills such as teamwork, independent work, leadership, and a great knowledge of the field.

Really fun, loads of internal events happening as you come into work - more or less an event every week - e.g. talks by guest speakers, fun internal events hosted by vendors or by the O2 Events team, competitions etc. Around the office the atmosphere is nice and relaxed with pool tables round the office and casual dress code, nice and informal while still encouraging its employees to be hardworking.

Beforehand not very well, with our job roles not being made clear to us, only the department that we were in, but once we started the internship everything ran a lot more smoothly and seemed well organised.

The company invested a lot in training us, not just day to day on the job, but also by running workshops for us to extend our knowledge on certain areas, and by encouraging us to shadow other areas of the business if we wanted to.

Really appealing, would definitely apply to O2 for a future career after uni.

Yes, really good social scene, with a facebook group of interns and grads set up to organise social events. This is a good way to network with other teams and departments at work.

In Slough there is not exactly lots to do when socialising, so any events for after work are difficult. The surrounding areas are good for socialising, eg Windsor, Reading, London but can be more expensive.

There is no nightlife in slough itself but most people live in surrounding town e.g. Windsor, Reading, London and commute in, which is easy to do and these areas all have good nightlife.

Yes - a project called Think Big gives employees loads of opportunities to employees to volunteer in the community in lots of different ways. However, not many social clubs outside of work e.g. sport societies.