The sun is setting on my summer internship. With just two weeks left to go, my feelings are mixed regarding the end of my stint at CS. I feel reluctant to leave the people I have spent an entire summer building up good relationships with, yet excited that senior year is about to begin.
The culture at CS is amiable yet professional. You'll probably never meet a more diverse workforce than the one at the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) group at CS. Even though I am in America, I am surrounded by people from every corner of the globe - there are people from Nigeria, India, Singapore, America, the Netherlands, Canada, France, Australia and Bulgaria. It is stimulating to work on a daily basis with people of such different backgrounds and nationalities. For this reason, I deeply appreciate the CS company culture. It makes an effort to hire employees from different nations and of different backgrounds. People can be themselves instead of trying to fit into a corporate mold.
One thing I am grateful for at the TMT group at CS is that our group head has taken the effort to organize weekly lunches through the summer with various high-level people working throughout the bank. There was the head of equity capital markets, the new chief of branding and communications, and just last week there was the head of fixed income. The head of fixed income is such an inspiring figure. Not only does he manage risk-taking at CS effectively, he also finds time to liaise between CS and the government. In a time when governmental regulation has increasing potential to affect the industry, it is vital that every bank has someone who can effectively communicate the bank's position to government officials. He has even had long conversations with Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi.
The group will be deciding if we receive return offers on August 6. That's only a week of real work left before our fates are decided. Onwards and upwards I say.
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