Summer Intern Review

My level of enjoyment was very up and down during the six weeks. I found it lacked organisation - some of the interns in the office had days where they were unassigned to any work. When we were assigned, the work was often quite repetitive. However, the teams I worked with were lovely and very helpful.

I felt very valued by my colleagues. They would take the time to get to know me and help me with any queries I had regarding the work or the firm in general.

Each intern is assigned a buddy and career counsellor for your six week placement. The buddy's role is to assist with any general queries you may have, while the counsellor keeps track of your feedback from jobs you are assigned to and your overall progress. I found my buddy to be pretty disinterested and I wasn't able to spend time with her as we were working at different offices. My career counsellor could be quite slow at responding to any queries, which was frustrating as the internship is only a few weeks long.

There often wasn't enough work for me to do.

I was given responsibility for completing audit steps and for ensuring my work was completed to an appropriate standard in good time.

I learned more about the audit process and what it would be like to return as a graduate.

Everyone was very friendly, but there weren't enough socials organised outside of work.

The organisation was pretty poor. We were often given different information from varying sources and we found it incredibly difficult to find out how the offer process would work after we finished.

Each intern is assigned a career counsellor who you are supposed to speak to if you are unhappy with the job you are assigned to. But because the internship is only six weeks long, it woul have been difficult to switch. Personal training was very limited. Each intern is assigned web-based learning tutorials to do, but they were more of a formality than anything else.

Interns who are successful are often offered graduate placements.

A buddy lunch and a dinner. Both were very boring.

Quite an expensive city to live in.

Average. A few bars and clubs.

We were assigned a CSR challenge competing with the other offices in Scotland, but we were never in the office, so found it difficult to get involved.