embedded in a team of Pragmatix consultants and received regular mentoring and feedback from the Director. Daily Life I was working completely remotely as the company does not have an office. My hours were 9-5, and I took regular breaks. I didn’t love having to stare at a screen the whole time, but I got used to it soon enough. Each day started with an informal team meeting, and then I got on with my work. I usually had at least one external meeting a day, which broke up the day a bit, and regularly spoke to my supervisor to get feedback and bounce ideas around. Pragmatix Advisory has a virtual office, whereby you are on a Teams meeting all day (camera on). This was strange at first but helped to ensure a social atmosphere between myself and my colleagues, and also enabled me to easily ask questions. Lasting Impressions The internship confirmed that consulting is for me, but I would like to work at a larger firm in the future. The team was great and gave loads of useful advice and support. It felt very rewarding to take part in a real client project, and I’m grateful that I was given real responsibility and treated as part of the team. I learned lots and would highly recommend this internship.
QOMPLX Second year Undergraduate, BA Economics and Management, In-person internship Work Projects My internship consisted of several data science projects: First, I had to find a way to extract numerical data from images and graphs (a sort of reverse-data-engineering task). Second, I wrote a program in Python that allowed me to collect data from different online sources/databases and store them in a suitable format on the company's data repository.
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