Intern Review

Great work environment, office atmosphere was fun and graduates were keen ensure you were comfortable. Partner shadowing days were a highlight. Day to day work could be quite mundane but there is an element of that in the grad role itself.

The point of the internship isn't really for you to do a huge amount of work so expectations of us weren't that high. The work I did seemed to be a bonus for them and it was well recived.

Good infastructure in place to ensure the internship went smoothly. Had a councellor and a director who looked out for me along with a 'buddy' who was a recent grad.

Fairly busy; things would always seem to pop up alongside ongoing things. There was always something to do if I wanted.

Not a huge amount but I think the nature of accountancy firms is that you need to be qualified to do anything of importance. Increasingly towartds the end I was trusted to contact other offices across the fim to develop cost updates for clients. I could always go and ask anyone if I had any diffuculties though so there was always a saftey net

My degree isn't accountancy based so not a huge amount. The most transferable skills I have come away with are the office/admin based skills of using excel/powerpoint and being more comfortable with email etiquette.

Great, open plan office and large central table where lots of people work is conducive to a failry lively office atmosphere (and minimal work at points!). Genuinely very friendly and actulally miss the office environment. Drinks after work were common place along with promotion/ completion drinks. It was a quieter time in the year however for the business so not sure how reperesentative it was of the whole year.

Well set up. Had induction days at the start which explained what was expected of us. Admittedly some of the training was quite basic and patronising but they covered all the bases and brought everyone up to the same level. Intern socials were minimal however in comparison to other companies. We were encouraged to come up with goals for the internship and tick off when completed.

Had induction days at the start which explained how we were to behave. The training was slightly patronising in that it was a teaching us to suck eggs in a way but it meant everyone was the basics at least. The best training was on the job itself from my buddy and other associates who were happy (and had time) to explain how things worked. Was in a fairly niche department so I had to pick up the technical aspects quickly.

Got a job! Not sure if I'll take it but that's nothing to do with EY, its the industry itself. While finance may be lucrative I think I am after a more people based role. It's a tough call as I already miss the office atmosphere and people I was working with. Plus it seems like a great grad scheme, decent qualification and I think I'd enjoy my time there.

Faily good, the office in London Bridge means there are plenty of bars around. Felt like the intership programme could have put on more events though.

Faily high but central London is never going to be cheap.

Great although we didn't really go out much

Yes, there seemed to be a very wide range of activities. Lots of sports (football, triathlon, running etc) through to religious and equality based groups. Was never particualy motivated to sign up however. A main selling point of the Big 4 schemes in general is the hours. Was often told 9-6 were pretty typical hours so leaves plenty of time to do things outside of work anyway.