Summer Vacation Scheme Student Review

Overall, it was a great insight into the professional service sector and tax. Personally I didn't think tax was for me, but at least it was a good opportunity to find this out. I think Deloitte seems like a good place to work, nice office, nice people etc, so I may try apply for a role in Consultancy.

Very valued. We got taken out for lots of meals by various people within the firm. Got to shadow partners. Everyone seemed to have lots of time to chat and explain things, so I learnt lots.

Lots. I had a buddy that was a first year who I sat next to who gave me pieces of work and informal support. Me and 3 other interns shared a 'champion' who oversaw the programme and came round to see us at least once a day to check that we had work.

I do chemical engineering, so tax isn't really relevant at all. I hope I don't end up in a tax related career.

Lots of socials planned. People were keen to invite me along to shadow them at client meetings. Our champion arranged for people working in different areas of tax to meet up to talk with us several times. Induction event in Solihull was a bit pointless, but nice to stay in a fancy hotel for a night.

I had a good time with the other interns. There were about 11 in my office. Everyone was friendly in the office and really keen to find work for us to do and to help us out. Got to know the first year associates quite well. Also got taken out for lunch and had quite a bit of interaction with the partners.

We didn't get much training at all as it was only a 3 week internship. The induction event didn't really offer any training so seemed pointless. However, informally I still learnt quite a lot from just talking to people and from shadowing and doing work. I imagine the training offered at a graduate role level is really good. We only got trained in how to use our laptops, but this seemed very professional.

Very good as we got a chance to work with some of the first year associates on things like tax returns and computations. But also worked with managers/directors on their projects, even though my role was usually just typing things up or putting clip art on a presentation, it still allowed me to have a good idea of what was going on. I also got to write part of a transfer pricing report, which was good.

I really liked the culture of Deloitte. The great number of socials gave us all a good chance to ask questions in an informal setting so we could get more honest opinions of what it is really like to work at Deloitte. People seemed to generally like the culture and lifestyle, but not always the actual work.

I found out that I found tax a bit dull, but business stuff in general seems quite interesting. I got to work on lots of different areas in tax such as compliance, m&a, real estate and transfer pricing which was quite useful as they all seemed quite different so was a good experience.

Very generous pay and didn't actually have to work very hard.

This was the best bit! We got a chance to meet all the interns in the regional offices at a 2 day induction event at the start. Then in week 1 we got taken out for lunch/dinner 3 times with various people. Then in week 2 and 3 we had 2 evening socials. Deloitte seemed to have a very generous budget for socials.

Mostly really good. All quite relaxed and fun. Lots of nice free food and drinks.

No, we weren't there long enough really to join in, but a few people mentioned that they did stuff.

Yes, this will give you a really good insight into Deloitte. I think myself and most of the other interns had a good time.