Industrial Placement Student Review

by GSK

Best Student Employer

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Rating

3.8/5
  • The Role
    4.3
  • The Company
    3.3
  • The Culture
    3.5

    The Role

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

    • Great overall experience. Met many new people and learnt very valuable skills

    4/5
  • 2. To what extent did you feel valued by your colleagues?

    • My colleagues recognised my hard work. I was given the responsibility of training up a colleague in an assay format.

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

    • Someone is generally always around to tell me what to do and provide me help.

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

    • Scientific research tends to vary

    3/5
  • 5. How much responsibility were you given during your placement?

    • I was responsible for running all my experiments

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

    • Very useful to know how to interact with others in such a large company

    5/5

    The Company

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

    • Sometimes rather quiet, but lets you concentrate on your work

    3/5
  • 8. How well organised was the overall work placement or internship set up?

    • GSK underwent alot of reorganisation so sometimes hard to work around having to move labs, seeing people get made redundant, last minute meetings etc.

    3/5
  • 9. In terms of personal training and development, to what extent did the company or firm invest in you?

    • Very good training

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

    • Flexi Time

    Staff Sales/Staff Shop

    Above 25 days holiday
    4/5
  • 11. How appealing are future employment prospects within the organisation?

    • Unsure about the future of GSK R&D as it has been, and maybe still is making employees redundant.

    3/5

    The Culture

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

    • Other students were great, was like being at university but in a different setting

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

    • Not bad for living down south. There were plenty of places with good offers.

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

    • Not many places but you made the most of what you got

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

    • Need to use your initiative to find places and travel out of Stevenage.

    4/5
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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Pharmaceutical

South East

November 2010

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