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I really enjoyed my internship at PwC. I enjoyed the residential portion as it allowed me to meet other interns, both in my local office and across the country. I feel like this gave the interns in our local office a solid base to become friends even after we separated out onto difference engagements. I feel like the engagements I was involved in were varied and this kept things interesting in the short time of my internship.

The people at PwC have all been lovely. When working with people they are happy to help and explain as much as needed and both informal and formal feedback has been very encouraging and constructive. At social events people continued to be genuinely lovely and warm which was really nice having come into such a large group of new people.

I feel like the supervisors I had were always very willing to give support and guidance when asked for. There were never times when people wouldn't help me and it was only ever very rare that people did not help immediately - only if they were very busy and in that case they asked me to accumulate questions and then set a time to go through things with me.

In general I was very busy on a day to day business. There were only 2/3 days where I struggled to find anything to do and perhaps 1 day where I felt I was pushing for time. The days I struggled to find things to do were due either to the engagement almost being ready to sign, or due to clients not submitting requested documents in time. The time I was too busy was similarly due to it being the end of an engagement where the client had only just returned evidence

I was surprised at the level of responsibility I was given straight away doing the same tasks that first and second years would usually do, often being trusted to be given a whole set of EGAs do complete myself. I found this to be one of the most enjoyable aspects of the work as it was encouraging to be trusted to do meaningful work while given the support I needed to complete it to a high standard.

Coming from an arts background many of the things I picked up from having a job in audit for 6 weeks probably won't help me directly in the final year of my degree, however it certainly has provided a strong base for once I graduate and enter employment. Indirectly I think that the way in which such a large task as an audit is broken up into manageable sections will help me manage my workload as I complete my final year, as will many of the other skills I have picked up having a full time job the past 6 weeks.

As I have already said, everybody in the office was genuinely lovely. While people at times just had to get their heads down to meet deadlines, people generally were very easy going and interested in getting to know you. There were several social events on during the 6 weeks of my internship, including a boat trip and group lunches, which provided a really great opportunity to meet and get to know the other people in the office.

I would say in general the placement was very well organised, and as an intern I felt like I fitted into the overall structure of the company in a way that meant I could learn and be supported while at the same time making a meaningful contribution. I feel like the way the firm is structured ( into year groups for the first years especially) allowed for us to fit in so easily as it was clear around what sort of work we were expected to do.

I feel like especially because I do not come from an accounting or related background, the firm invested a great deal in my development which was very encouraging. The fact that we had 3 days of training in Windsor, followed by 2 days of local induction meant that we had a strong base to work from. People across the firm were always very accommodating to what we needed to learn and happy to help us understand the work we were doing.

I think the internship has made the prospect of a grad job with PwC even more appealing. This is largely due to the good experience I had and the positive opinion of the graduates I met who had joined the firm in the past few years, but also from seeing that there are opportunities to move abroad within the firm and also to continue to progress when having a family and other commitments from having met more senior people who have had support from the firm in these aspects.

The group of interns I was in did not really seem to want to socialise outside of work. They were absolutely lovely people and I enjoyed the time we spent together at work and on the residential, however 6 weeks probably just wasn't long enough to form full friendships. The older colleagues especially in the first and second years of their graduate jobs seemed much more social and like they had formed genuine friendships outwith work which was nice to see as I know that especially during ICAS you spent a lot of time with the rest of your year.

Glasgow is fairly realistic in terms of living costs. While it still isn't as cheap as other big cities - especially as a Glasgow University 西瓜视频 and therefore living in the West End which has far more expensive rent than other 西瓜视频 cities - it is still possible to be a young person and live comfortably. Especially after graduating this burden should be lessened as I will be free to move to a less expensive area than the West End, though for my internship it has been very useful as it is so close to the Bothwell street office (about a 25 minute walk)

As I go to university in Glasgow I already knew that I really enjoyed the nightlife here. The city centre tends to be where people from PwC tend to go out which has lots of bars, restaurants and clubs to choose from which was really fun.

While I didn't personally get involved in activities outside of work, apart from the socials, it did look like people had a fair few choices. Around the office there are notices for various sports such as football and badminton after work, as well as yoga classes within the office. I don't think there are many other activities which aren't sport however.