QOMPLX

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.

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.

Third, I helped the company develop an actuarial model for calculating the exposure of US

hospitals to cyber-attacks. Lastly, I built an independent, Google-like search engine that

facilitates the search of files and data within the company's data repository.

Daily Life

I lived in two different areas of London - Marylebone and Southwark. Both were really nice; I

had to move halfway through my internship because the landlord of the place where I was

renting a room decided to sell the property. I tried commuting both by Tube and by bus, and

I have to admit that I prefer the latter, as during the trip you can admire the streets, local

markets, and attractions that the city has to offer. I did not have a lot of time outside of

work, and I mostly spent it relaxing and exploring London’s parks and museums with friends.

Lasting Impressions

My internship has been really mind-opening. I learned a lot about an industry I was not familiar with and realised what it means to work in a finance/insurance/tech job in London. During this internship, I gained relevant experience, expanded my technology/programming

skill set, and also actively contributed to the development of new products that the

company will launch and present to clients in the near future. The experience definitely

sharpened my career ambitions, and I am glad I have been able to attend it in-person, in the

office, getting to know many wonderful colleagues, who turned out to be nice friends also

outside of the office.

Third Year Undergraduate (of a four year course), MPhys Physics, In-person internship

mathematics of malware modelling.

Work Projects

My tasks included building and validating

cyber-insurance pricing models in Excel,

implementing web-scraping scripts in

Python, cleaning and processing large

datasets in R, prototyping software features

using Scala, and reviewing literature on the