Assurance Intern Review

I thoroughly enjoyed my 6 week internship this summer. The office environment and culture is very welcoming and everyone made a big effort to keep you busy. You get a real sense of responsibility and purpose over the internship and I found it very rewarding. I thought this was a great experience and would recommend to anyone.

This is one of my highlights when working at PwC, everyone you work with makes a real effort to make you feel valued and ensure you have plenty of engaging jobs to be doing. When requesting feedback they were all very proactive and responded in way that allowed me to develop throughout my time here.

The managers/in charges were very welcoming and ensured that you felt comfortable to ask any questions that you may have had. Despite their busy schedules they always made time to discuss any issues, and explained the work in a way that allowed me to further my understanding of my work.

I would say that I was kept very busy and the rest of the team was very active in ensuring I had something to do throughout the day. If I was ever without anything to do, my in charge would actively seek other work for me if they couldn't allocate anything themselves.

I think I was given as much responsibility as you could expect during a 6 week placement. I was assigned tasks to complete and was left to ask questions whenever I had any. I was then expected to say when I had completed the allocated tasks to ensure I was given more work to do.

I have already graduated from university, however the experience of a work environment has allowed me to improve my communications skills and my self leadership skills. I believe that I have a clear idea of how I would personally develop at PwC and look forward to hopefully returning next year.

The atmosphere in the office was a real highlight of mine. At PwC there is a very social atmosphere, where everyone is very welcoming and always offering to try and improve your time in the office. The open seating allows you to sit where you want and communicate easily with your team.

Very well set up, the first few days in London allowed us to meet a lot of the interns, and the interns in our office. We were all assigned a buddy and a career coach which helped us integrate into the office and answer any immediate questions we had. Overall the placement was organised very well.

Very appealing, through conversations with my career coach I have been given areas for clear development and also been told areas of strength to develop further. We were also given the opportunity to have a conversation with a partner where we were given an insight into his career path and tip for developing and progressing within the company

Yes, usually every thursday we would get together as a group of interns and organise a social event. We have arranged several socials and have formed a strong relationship with the other interns. I also joined the PwC hockey team which was a great chance to meet new people outwith my working day.

In edinburgh I think you can expect rent to be around £500pcm excluding bills. This is obviously depending on how close to the city centre you want to live or the quality of the flat. Cost of socialising is fairly reasonable, you would expect main courses to be around £10-£15 and pints to be around £4-£5.