Tax Intern Review

Overall my experience was a very positive one. The staff and other interns were lovely, the social event were enjoyable albeit a bit tame and the work was reasonably interesting. I was offered a job at the end so I can't complain.

The team were a lovely bunch of people - friendly, helpful and welcoming.

My manager was very helpful.

There were days where I had deadlines to meet and had to stay late, and others where it was fairly relaxed. So overall it was reasonably well balanced.

You're given the same work as a graduate, which is nice, and a good deal of trust and free reign.

Good insight into the financial world and how to move up in it, got to do a bit of networking and experience a working environment.

While I wouldn't want to give the impresson we just clowned around all day, as in fact staff were extremely hard-working, there was nevertheless a good deal of banter and a very good atmosphere in the office. People all seemed to get on very well and had a laugh.

While the program had a clear and well-planned structure, HR at time seemed a little lost. Myself and several other interns got asked a few times for documents we had already provided, I know of one girl who did an internship in an area they had no intention of hiring into, and sometimes they did not know answers to simple questions regarding the program.

I was pleased with the training I got. We went on a networking skills session, and a truly excellent presentation skills training session. I also received on-the-job training in software use and got taught how to do the work in general.

15 out of 16 interns were offered a partner interview with a view to a permanent job offer, and of these 15, 13 were successful and received offers, a success rate of 81.25%. The two and interviewed and didn't get a job were unlucky as 2 other interns decided to go for what would probably have otherwise been their job, as they were interning in the area, but there were only two places and they did not get them. But overall the intership offers you an excellent chance of a job.

The interns were, I thought, pretty anti-social compared to what I expected. Social events were fairly tame and almost always finished before 11.30, we did very little socialising outside of work-organised events and any of the interns were just a bit... square. But there were a select few who were up for a laugh and have rescued this rating from about a 2 to a 5.

Its London - you buy one round and you are broke, especially on the pittance I was getting paid.

Its London so its good, if a bit pretentious for my liking, not to mention a but pricy.

I did to CSR days, as well as a run for charity. All were loads of fun and a welcome addition to the internship program.