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Overall a very positive experience. Two-day coding challenge was great fun, as were the networking events. Some of the presentations were more dry, but a necessary evil.

Everyone was really friendly. There were a lot of people on the spring week (200 in total, 40 in my division), though, so it was a bit impersonal. Probably the same at any bank.

As much support as I needed. In particular, there were always experienced developers on hand for the coding challenge. But since we weren't doing real work, there wasn't much support necessary.

Too short to really develop many skills. It's given me a good insight into the skills required for the job, though, which should help me prioritize what modules to choose in my studies.

The program was extremely well run.

There were two nights in the week with social events, one a quiz in the canteen and the other going to a local restaurant. Both were great fun. Since J.P. Morgan put us all up in the same hotel, there was a good social scene other evenings too.

We had an interesting Agile development training session. But since the placement was only a week, there wasn't much scope for training.

I feel like I have a much better idea than when I started. The two-hours of work shadowing one afternoon was particularly invaluable.

Pretty good: got to speak to lots of employees, and got a feel for what the work-life balance is like.

Unpaid but covered my travel and accommodation expenses. J.P. Morgan don't shortchange you: they must have easily spent £1000 per person on food, drinks and accommodation. I found their expenses system a nightmare though: I was travelling from my home to London for the spring week, and then from London to my uni (shouldn't be that unusual, for an event for Î÷¹ÏÊÓƵs held in the holiday.) Their travel booking service could only book one of the two tickets, since the other one didn't cost enough (!) although the total cost was over the minimum spend. They also don't reimburse for the (necessary) travel from the station to the hotel. This isn't a big deal, though.

There were a number of networking events which gave me a good feel for what my potential future colleagues would be like.

Very well organised with a wide range of people: one session was with recent graduates and one with senior managers, both of which gave complementary perspective.

There was a presentation on this, and employees also chatted about this themselves.

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