Summer Intern Review

On the whole, it was very enjoyable as I was exposed to various tasks and segments of the audit process, which I thought helped me to understand what Assurance is all about. Besides, the people in EY are all extremely helpful and friendly, and we regularly have office socials, which really helped me to get to know people.

The tasks that I was assigned to do surpassed my expectations of what I was expecting to do. Although it was a steep learning curve at times, I feel valued to be entrusted with challenging and difficult tasks such as leading the client meetings even though I had no prior experience.

The support and guidance from all team members are extremely good. I also had support from the assigned buddy who would answer almost any "stupid" questions that I had. My counseling manager was terrific too, with support on a broader level, always keeping track of my progress during the internship.

I was rather busy in my first couple of weeks as I was assigned to a first year client, which means that there is simply more to do. Although we worked late (approx. around 7-8pm), I thought that we were fairly compensated with dinner expense, and breakfast expense the next too. Although, this really depends on what clients you are put on as some other interns weren't as busy.

As mentioned above, the tasks that I was assigned to do surpassed my expectations of what I was expecting to do. As such, I thought that EY is a firm that encourages senior members of the team to help junior members of the team to learn and grow by giving them more and more responsibility as time progresses, which is what I experienced.

The support and guidance provided by team members were excellent. On a technical level, I gained knowledge about the clients industries, business processes, audit methodologies. I even improved my Excel skills having to work with it a lot throughout my internship. Not only that, I also improved my soft skills such as communication skills, which is vital in a client facing role.

The atmosphere was a very professional yet approachable feel. In my first week, people would just chat with me seeing as I'm a new face in the office, and just check on how I was getting on, which I thought was a really nice touch. We also had many office socials such as barbeques, amazing races.

On the whole, I thought that the internship was very well set up from start to finish. Before beginning the internship, I started to receive a lot of information about what to expect from the HR team and also from the local office manager. I was also placed in different clients who are in different stages of the audit process to aid my learning experience in the internship.

I thought that EY is a firm that really cares about the development of its employees. All it takes is some self initiative. For instance, if you would like to learn more about other service lines, you could be sent on a short secondment to gain some experience there before returning. For me, I requested to be put on different clients at different stages of the audit as mentioned in the comments above.

Would return if offered a graduate role.

As mentioned above, the office had many good socials throughout my 6 weeks there.

Bristol is a good city to live in, although it is still comparably expensive as compared to the other regions. Food is still pretty expensive as compared to London (which I lived in for the past 2 years). The fact that the regional offices gets paid less than London also doenst help, so there is certainly a mismatch in terms of real income.

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