Public Sector Audit Review

The people were wonderful, the job was difficult for me to enjoy, since it was not what I expected or would have normally opted to do.

My colleagues were fabulous. I felt really at home and included. The feedback I received acknowledged that I was a valuable member of the teams in which I was placed.

I met my People Manager twice during the 6 weeks, (5 weeks at work), alongside two further phone calls to check up on my progress and how I was finding it all. The support was great.

There were some days when I was extremely busy, and other days when I had nothing to do for the majority of the day, but still had to stay for the whole working day (and longer than the 'required' hours). On average, I would say that I had too little to do.

During my first 2 weeks at the client sites, I was helping my colleagues, rather than working on work I had been specifically allocated. In the following (and final) 3 weeks, I was allocated a lot of work, and was included in the task-plan.

My degree has little opportunity to work as part of a team, and this internship allowed me to have these experiences. I worked with different personalities within my team as well as during the Dragon-Den-style project we were given as teams of interns; all of these allowed me to work with different personalities and deal with time and personality issues as best suited the situation.

I was on two different teams throughout my internship, and the atmosphere in each was completely different. The first was a great atmosphere with joking and laughing, but the later was much quieter and there was no talking. Understandably, it depends on where you are based for the work, but it can get a bit quiet.

The training during week 1 was fabulous, as well as the later weeks' work-placements. There were some problems with the days to London, since no one really knew what was happening, and the final day was poorly organised in that we spent all day, when it could have taken only a few hours.

PwC invested a huge amount of time and money into the internship and interview processes. They really seemed to care that those they chose to give placements to were of a high quality and got as much out of the internship as they put in.

I was offered a job in the location I was placed in, however requested a job in Tax (rather than Audit) and location change. This resulted in the requirement for a final interview at the new location, but of the two people I know who required an interview (after a location change), neither received an offer. It seems strange that after investing so much time and money into the interns, that we would not be offered a job.

There was no opportunity for myself and the interns to organise any social events, since we were all at client sites until late.

As a university town, Norwich has a great social life throughout the year. The cost of living is far lower than London, and the average house price is only £90,000 - very cheap compared to the rest of the south of England.

As above, Norwich is a university town, so has a thriving night-life.

If I were to become an employee at PwC, there were many opportunities available for activities outside of work. Colleagues had set up sports teams and knew who was interested in which sports.