Internal Audit - auditor Review

A good overall experience, the people are very helpful and want to help you learn. However the Internship has little structure and I regularly struggled to find work. I had to use my networks in other teams to get it and despite consistent positive feedback for all the work i completed i still struggled to source more. This was demotivating as the internship went on. However I would still say the overall experience was positive and oher interns had much better experiences.

I was made to feel valued and where I had work i feel like i contributed. However it seemed as if i was a second thought when it came to meetings and sometime would not be included. That said it was obvious the welcoming atmosphere that RBS tries to achieve and they achieve it well.

My line manager was always making time to catch up when needed and made an effort to source me work when i asked (multiple times a day), however seemed like he did not follow this through that much and often didn't follow up when he said he'd get back to me. However, i still did feel supported throughout the program.

For 2 of the 10 weeks i found myself busy, for the rest of the internship it was a constant search for work among the network i'd formed. My line manager passed very little of the work i did to me. This was the worst aspect of the internship and led to boredom and demotivation a lot of the time.

I was given good levels of responsibility when I found work to undertake, good work results in more trust and more responsibility as you go along.

Training available was a very positive part of the internship, there was a wide range of available resources and people very much wanted to help you learn. I developed my knowledge massively through the internship.

The atmosphere was very relaxed. Sometimes it felt too relaxed and i struggled to keep busy. Everyone in the office wants to engage with you and meet you and open their social circles to you while you are there. Senior staff are very approachable.

The organisation was not fantastic. The location was not revealed till 3 weeks before although they have pledged to improve this it was a problem leading up to the internship. The internship itself did not have much structure and the best description I can give is ad hoc besides to good structure of performance management. The deadlines for internship documents kept moving and descriptions were not helpful.

RBS invests massively in your development. There is great training available should you be proactive and take it up with enthusiam, you can learn a lot and shape what you want to do with you career, staff are conducive to this.

Appealing, the graduate scheme looks to be much more well structured than the internship and i would go back onto it if offered a place.

Occasional drinks were organised and football groups were there. However the social scene wasn't anything particularly positive and something to comment on.

Cost of living is very high and you do not make any money from the salary if you don't already live where you are working, however you can live combfortably and socialise well without having to worry.

The nightlife is really good, however this is not connected with the company, if you have friends living around summer is still very muh a good experince despite working.

Not really, I played football with work lunch and they held a work sports day.