Information Security Intern Review

My internship was generally good - I feel as though I learnt a lot from my line manager and my team. I wouldn't necessarily want to work in my team in the long term but I think as an inital introduction into the banking industry it gave me a good overview as to the different areas of the bank and the way the bank works. I feel as though I would have benefitted from being able to experience client facing roles and other roles within operations and also that my experience would have been very different had I been in a different location.

was integrated as part of the team from a very early stage and was able to contribute to team meetings and provide my input. I joined a very specialist, niche team and so from that perspective it was somewhat difficult to feel like a fully-fledged member of the team given that I had such a relatively short time period to learn a relatively large amount of information.

My managers, both immediate and senior were generally very helpful and gave me good guidance both for immediate work issues and in terms of more general business practice. I was not allowed to go to a different location to gain a broader experience of services as a whole which was frustrating, but apart from this, my general guidance was good.

The first few weeks of the internship were very very slow. My line manager was on holiday when I joined my team and so I was largely left with very little work for the first week or so of the internship. Thereafter I very much found that the work came in phases - I would regularly go from being very busy to having nothing to do - the last week in particular was very very slow because all of my team were away and so I was the only member of my team actually in the office.

I was given some responsibility from the beginning and was given a few small projects to manage - however, these seemed relatively menial in comparison to other tasks that I could have been given - my managers said that my work was important but it often felt as though I was being keep busy with relatively menial tasks and projects that I was being asked to "manage" to just give me a facade of responsibility.

The skills and general business experience I gained from the internship was potentially the most valuable part of the internship however this was very specific to me because I learnt alot specifically from my line manager due to his extensive experience at the bank.

Generally fairly relaxed - largely depended on the work load and other factors

RBS is shrinking massively and my office was not particularly dynamic - having said that I think my experience would be very different if i was in a different team and office

Yes, we all lived together- he social scene was... good.