Corporate Tax Intern Review

I enjoyed working for Ernst & Young. It was mostly office based and quiet at times, but when you got the opportunity to go out and meet clients it was much more enjoyable. All my colleagues were really friendly and you can feel like you fit in to the department. If you want a chance to do something, like visit another department or shadow a manager, they always try to make this happen for you.

All my colleagues were really friendly and I instantly felt like part of the team like I properly worked there rather than just being an intern.

We have counselling meetings with managers every other week and we also had someone from graduate recruitment in an other office come to give guidance and support. Offices are open plan so I've been sat next to a manager and it's very easy to just ask for help or advice when needed.

Bearing in mind that summer was the quietest time of year, many days I didn't have a lot of client work to do. However, there were online learning things I could do instead and it wasn't due to staff not giving work as often they were quiet aswell.

I was probably given a similar amount of responsibility as a graduate would be. All emails and letters have to be signed out by a manager whatever grade, but I was trusted to check over work and sign things in on the online system, update filing, draft letters etc.

In my degree I won't be doing any accounting modules so it is unlikely that it will help me in my degree, however I think that if I am offered a graduate position my time here now will help me when I start.

Everyone in the office was very friendly and relaxed. There was quite a chilled atmosphere in the office and it was easy to speak to anyone at all even people on other departments. We went out for lunch a few times and sometimes had lunch brought in.

I don't think that the internship in general was very organised, as there wasn't particularly set things for us to do but in a small office it would be difficult to find different things for us to do every day. We got to visit as many clients as possible and shadow as many people as possible.

The company view seems to be that 90% of interns will be offered graduate positions so we had a 2 night residential stay for training, similar to what a graduate training would be like and there are online work to help us with specific training. Colleagues would also help us with anything in particular we were interested in learning.

As they're aiming to convert 90% of interns into graduates I'm hoping to be one of them! The atmosphere in the office is friendly, as are interns from other offices. As a graduate EY would pay for me to train as an account for three years, with a decent starting salary.

There was only one other intern in our office! So although we are good friends, we didn't really see eachother outside of work. Whilst doing the training there were two welcome dinners with unlimited amounts of food and alcohol were all regional interns could chat and meet, there is also an end of internship ball on the last week where you can see all the people you first met again.

I lived at home and commmuted! Although there was a reasonably priced sandwich shop next door, and restaraunts in the city were similarly priced to any other city.

Although I've been out here before I didn't go out here during my internship!

Not particularly, we were invited to two networking events outside of work. We were also invited to take part on a charity day instead of coming into the office one day.