Intern Review

I quite enjoyed the internship. Prior to the experience I did not have much understanding of the type of work I might be partaking in. As a result it meant that learning the trade and work was a very rewarding and engaging process. The people working there at my office helped make it an enjoyable experience.

I felt valued to the extent that I was useful for tasks here and there. This is more a fault of me, as I can be rather shy, however I will say that my relationship with my colleagues mostly just felt like work colleagues. Still a great bunch of people though.

I had some degree of support and guidance, however this seemed to diminish over the course of the internship. I appreciate my counsellor was quite busy, and part of the problem was that given how new everything was to me I didn’t know what sort of questions to ask. I think I got better at asking questions later on though.

The first 2-3 weeks of the internship had me busy on many tasks. All of it was incredibly new to me therefore I had a lot to learn and things I could help with. The second half watered down content levels, and I found myself not having very much to do in spite of asking.

I was given some responsibility to the degree of making some notes during a client meeting, and making some adjustment to some tax computations. I would not say I was given that much responsibility though. About half or more of the tasks being completed by me, were mundane printing or filing jobs.

I study mathematics at university and to be honest, I haven’t developed anything that would come in use during my degree studies. I think much of the work involving numbers during the internship wasn’t particularly challenging. I developed some skills whilst shadowing client meetings, but I never participated in the meeting due to a lack of knowledge therefore did not gain as many useful skills as I could have.

The office had a good atmosphere. I was a part of the Luton office, and the tax team was rather small. This gave the office a nice community feel, as one was constantly surrounded by familiar faces no more than a few metres away. The layout of the desks helped to encourage this atmosphere too.

Overall very well organised. I knew what was happening, when it was happening and never felt any ambiguity in what might be happening. The emails were incredibly useful as was the point of contact from outside the office that one could talk to about the overall internship and any outstanding queries.

I felt somewhat invested in, however not as much as I could have been. I don’t feel particularly trained, instead I feel as though I have gained an insight into what working with EY might be like. I’m not sure if there was much in place specifically for intern development, rather the interns were there to help with any extra yet easy tasks.

I am looking forward to hopefully returning to the firm a year from now to take on a graduate position. I would be lying if I said this was my dream position or anything, as of course I know that I would be there to do a job. Overall though I like EY as a firm, and the kind of things happening in the world that I may be exposed to through working with EY.

To some extent. We organised a work social for the last week, but aside from that nothing particularly happened. I never saw the interns from the other team in my office, let alone the interns from the London office during visits to London. Once or twice some of the grads went for drinks in London during the World Cup however.

Pretty cheap, however this is Luton. I wouldn’t really choose to live or socialise in Luton as my main base is in St Albans and London. Those cities have decent socialising prospects however are both quite expensive to live in unfortunately. The price you pay I suppose, and worth it.

Well I’ll mention London since it is so close to Luton. I don’t really know though, I went out in London once during the work social and that has been it (in terms of the evening anyway). I have heard good things about the night life though, so I have no doubt it’s good.

Not really, the only activity I recall having the opportunity to get involved with out of work was the work social which I and the interns were involved with. To give them the benefit of the doubt though, we were only there for 6 weeks and it was a slow season for work therefore the office was regularly quite empty.