Intern Review

Thoroughly enjoyed the internship. The work was engaging and interesting and I certainly gained a lot from the experience. Some of the events could have been better organised, such as the tours and the night out. On the whole though, it was well worth doing.

A bit weird this one. We were given an independent research project so I wasn't heavily integrated within my team. The people I did work with were very helpful and always approachable.

Couldn't really have asked for any more to be honest. The amount of time my manager allocated to me throughout my internship exceeded all expectations.

Worked 8.15-5 most days. Had time to stop for 1hr lunch, but was kept busy whenever at my desk. Good balance.

To the extend that I was the only one working on my particular project, quite a lot. However, I didn't feel as though what I was working on was really essential. Fair enough really, you wouldn't want interns working on the crucial issues.

Undoubtedly the quintessential reason for doing this internship. If you're doing an economics degree there can be no better place. Also gave me the confidence to undertake a dissertation in my final year.

Not a lot of banter going on. But then if everyone's working hard then that's fair enough.

My team was well organised and had everything in place for when I got there. Coordination between HR and my team was poor though, and that's why the score got dragged down a bit.

They invested a lot of time in us. My manager allocated a lot of time in me. We were also given a presentation skills training course to help with our presentations.

Definately a lot better for non-economists than economists. For economists the process takes two years and is definately very high risk. Economists do another internship next summer afterwhich you may be sponsored to do a masters and have a job for afterwards. The catch is you must already have been accepted onto a MSc course and you won't find out whether you're being sponsored until after you've started your course. So you could be left with a £20,000 bill for your course and no job. I guess this is ok for some people, but given that back in February, we were told at the assessment centre that if we met the required standard we would be offered a job, this is quite disappointing. Sometime between attending the assessment centre and starting the intership the rules of the game changed and this has left something of a bitter taste.

This was great, a friendly bunch and we went out quite often.

London prices, say no more really. Can find some bargains if you look hard enough

It's London so it makes up for the high cost.

Not really. As said earlier the interns socialised a lot, but otherwise there seemed to be little going on.