Summer Vacation Scheme Intern Review

There was a steady flow of challenging work, with excellent support from my manager and colleagues to help me complete the work. I enjoyed the work and I got on well with my colleagues.

I felt like a valued member of the team, undertaking some high-profile work which was an important deliverable for the client. I felt more effort could have been made for activities outside of work to get to know colleagues better.

My managers were very supportive, never loosing patience for my endless questions! Their guidance was invaluable for helping me understand the project and building my role within it. They took the time out to give me regular performance reviews, which I felt were key to my overall development throughout the placement.

Some days were very busy, which could result in long hours, but other days were quite quiet, occasionally leading to boredom.

I was given ownership of a high-profile deliverable for the client, but with the support of my managers I never felt overwhelmed by the responsibility they gave me.

Unfortunately my degree mainly requires good writing skills, however I feel this experience had given me skills with new software packages which I previously had not used and which I feel may come in handy in the future. Accenture trains its staff well on a wide range of software, so I don't doubt that if I use something new in future I'll have the support there to help me learn.

My colleagues were generally friendly, though we did occasionally have some angst created by the client. I generally felt like most people were approachable, though at times I felt my managers might be a little too busy to be disturbed.

Excellent Induction week. The training on Excel was incredibly useful for the rest of the internship - something which major accountancy firms (stupidly) don't do! The business challenge gave us insight into Accenture on a larger scale, and provided a great opportunity to get to know the other interns. My only criticism would be the late notice of where we would be working for the rest of the internship, as this limited our ability to plan where we would be for the summer! Overall though, excellent organisation and really well thought through induction week.

The salary was excellent. When working away the accomodation is very nice and the meal allowance generous. The Induction Week training was excellent.

The flexibility within Accenture is extremely generous, and it would be easy to have a varied career whilst only being employed by one company. Extensive training is given to graduates and there is clear progression available. I've no doubt that working for Accenture in the long run would be hard work, but it would be well worth it.

Interns went for regular lunches and drinks together. However working on a project outside of London limits your ability to participate in these events.

London is expensive - standard. I was working on a project based near Portsmouth and as such it was much cheaper. Plus there's a generous meal allowance so you end up spending barely any money at all.

Working just outside of Portsmouth the nightlife was the hotel bar or BBC.

There was a football team and a cricket match. The lads were loving it. Me, not so much.