Bristol-Myers Squibb Internships

 
Bristol-Myers Squibb Internships
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Bristol-Myers Squibb

Internship Overview
Internship Rating (Avg): 4.67 out of 5
3 Intern Reviews
Avg Bristol-Myers Squibb Intern Salary: $20.33
3 Intern Salaries
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Internship Stats

Bristol-Myers Squibb offers paid internships in all business units. BMS has created distinct internships programs for undergraduate, graduate, and MBA students. Bristol-Myers Squibb hires all different student majors, from pharmacy to accounting and engineering to life sciences.

Internship Perks

The BMS internship program typically includes:
  •  One 10- to 12-week assignment within a business team; typically May/June to August
  • An orientation, including an overview of company structure, products and brands
  • Exposure to senior management and business leaders
  • An opportunity to work on "live" projects, with a formal presentation at the conclusion of your internship
  • A mentor program
  • Mid- and end-of-summer performance review sessions

Bristol-Myers Squibb Internship & Company Overview

Put your degree to work at Bristol-Myers Squibb as an intern or a co-op, where your skills and education can help develop and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases while you grow in your career.

A variety of opportunities exist throughout our company for you to gain valuable real-life work experience and academic credit. If you are studying at a competitive college/university and are about to complete your junior year, you are invited to apply to one of our internship or co-op programs. Some divisions may accept applications from other classes (e.g., sophomore). Please check with your school's career department, or department head for job postings and descriptions, the resume submission deadline and interview dates.
Summer Internships

Our graduate and undergraduate Summer Intern Development Programs are designed to ensure interns gain valuable industry and functional experience, work on challenging assignments, and partner and network with Bristol-Myers Squibb employees, while learning about our company.

Some summer intern programs have also included:

- senior business speaker series (cross-divisional)
- a community service event
- team-building events
- housing assistance

Summer Intern Development Program participants are a priority in the full-time offer process.

Businesses that typically host graduate and undergraduate summer interns are:

- Human Resources in central New Jersey
- Research & Development in central New Jersey and Wallingford, Connecticut
- Technical Operations in central New Jersey; Devens, Massachusetts; and Syracuse, New York

Internship References

Bristol-Myers Squibb Student Careers: here
Bristol-Myers Squibb Internships: here
Undergraduate Internships: here
3 Bristol-Myers Squibb Intern Salaries
Engineering Intern: $22/hour
Business Analyst Intern: $20/hour
Human Resources Intern: $19/hour
3 Bristol-Myers Squibb reviews posted anonymously by former interns:
"Got to see all the HR functions and learn the BMS system"
Position: Human Resources Intern
Location: New Brunswick, NJ
Pay: $$19/hour
Duration: 11 weeks
Review posted on 6/17/2011
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Pros:

- Rotated between recruiting, benefits, and HR strategy group. I loved this because I was able to see how each HR group function at BMS.
- Speaker series with executives where they explain Bristol Myers Squibb strategy and how career progression may work there.
- Performance reviews which is interesting and orientation which is helpful to meet other interns and co-workers.
- You also can get a mentor to talk over careers and how things work. You can tell that BMS uses these internships as a direct pipeline to entry level offers.

Cons:

Very large company. I'm not sure I want to work a place where you have to be very specialized.

Advice for other students:

Bristol Myers Squibb is a solid place to intern and almost everybody knows their brand.
 
"Great exposure to the total Bristol Myers Squibb business"
Position: Business Analyst Intern
Location: Plainsboro, NJ
Pay: $$20/hour
Duration: 10 weeks
Review posted on 6/17/2011
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Pros:

- Work on real life projects which is great from work flow (I was never bored). These projects gave me a real view of what I would do as a business analyst (which is kind of a vague title).
- Able to meet with several different groups and learn where I might want to work within BMS.
- Performance review at the end of my BMS internship was insightful.
- As an intern, I was also able to meet with a mentor and some key execs to learn about what if may be like to work fulltime at BMS. After the internship, I realized that I loved the company.

Cons:

nothing.

Advice for other students:

Bristol Myers Squibb is a great internship to see how a large corporation functions.
 
"Several large scale engineering projects"
Position: Engineering Intern
Location: Devens, MA
Pay: $$22/hour
Duration: 12 weeks
Review posted on 8/25/2011
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Pros:

- Hands on learning.
- Bristol Myers Squibb engineers allowed me to work on plant steam valves, optimization of water-for-injection, and the performance qualification of steam in place of sterilization process.
- Nice engineering team.
- Variety of projects.

Cons:

BMS is a huge company.

Advice for other students:

Talk with your placement/career service office.
 
 
 

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