Summer Intern (Management Consulting) Review

The work was a completely new experience for me, which was very fun and exciting. Naturally, some tasks were more interesting than others, but that is to be expected...

The team welcomed me from day one and introduced me to the clients immediately, which made me feel very valued. They arranged for me to go on some training courses and would give me challenging tasks which they believed I could fulfil.

There are various support channels within PwC. We were assigned a 'buddy' who is a recent joiner at the firm. This was great as I felt I could be completely open about the work with my buddy. We also had a people manager who was responsible for your general welfare, and we met up a couple of times for general chat and advice. Of course, the team I worked with also gave me a huge amount of support and guidance.

Peaks and troughs. Some days too busy, other days not enough to do. But in general I was kept busy. I think you need to be responsible for your work, so I would communicate with the team if I felt I could not deliver something in the allotted time and similarly I would ask for more if I felt I could take on more work.

I was given ownership of a number of tasks over the course of the internship. I felt that perhaps at the beginning I was given too much responsibility but of course I would much prefer this to too little.

Communication, professionalism and organisational skills will all assist me in my studies and beyond. The technical aspects of the job will maybe not be of as much use, but they are good skills to have nonetheless.

I was mostly on the client site, which was a small office. There was a lot of banter between the staff, and of course over time we were also part of the staff, so it was a fun environment.

The structure of the internship was great. We had set days for training, development and networking events. Only negative is the wait in resourcing to find each of us a project.

There were development days, and a 3-day induction at the beginning of the internship which gave us the necessary training to get by. Online training resources were available to us also.

Other interns were really fun, and we had some good nights out together.

Luckily I lived at home during the internship but living in central London is expensive. Socialising is also very expensive, although your pay is more if you work in the London office which compensates for this somewhat.

It's London.

I tried to get involved with volunteering but was told it would not be possible for an intern. I played football with the guys a few times, and there was a cool olympics themed competition over the course of the games.