Intern Review

Nice environment, nice people, flat company culture. If that is not enough, very interesting job, and focus on learning and thinking about investment stuff more than preparing slide or Excel.

I worked in a small team of 6, and they were extremely supportive, especially my manager, who gave me the chance to attend meetings with CEOs and to write e-mails to sell-side analysts. Not very common I'd say, for an internship..

Great support and guidance by the supervisor, of course not always possible to obtain an immediate feedback on your work, but that's standard in internships.

Definitely a great place in terms of work/life balance. During the day I had extreme autonomy, often I was left with no precise deadlines, just to read and build knowledge on a stock or an industry. Completely different setting than investment banking, with all the pros of this, but also some cons (sometimes even too relaxed).

I was part of the team at 100%, at least after having acclimatized. Then, as I said before, I had the chance to partecipate to calls, company meetings and to write external e-mails

I learnt a lot about equity and value investing, about how to analyse a company and an industry. I had the opportunity to follow a one-day intensive course on HOLT, a valuation platform by Credit Suisse, and had the chance to use on a daily basis Bloomberg

Generally very relaxed, sometimes too much, but you had to move first in order to know people.

The HRs seem to have structured the internship program with more attention in the last years, and you can notice it from the amount of activities and insights they organize. Sometimes, I have to say, they went a bit too far and organized some activities that distracted more from the actual work than what they gave, but I think it's all part of a process of gradual structuring of the internship program.

Given the involvement and training that my team gave me, I had the feeling that the firm was investing in me. We had also a collective training session on equity investing, and I think they should be potentiated.

The work place is great, job is very interesting. There is a Graduate Program, consisting of different rotations in departments, that seems attractive. Beyond that, the path is less clear, as there is not a clear career structure (as in M&A for example).

London..