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I enjoyed the summer internship - I was worried beforehand that it would be very stressful, pressured and intensive but my experience was a lot more laidback and enjoyable than that. The people at training were very nice, everyone in the office was friendly and welcoming. If you were pro-active, the firm were also willing to provide you with the opportunities you wanted - would let you experience other service lines etc. This is what I did and it meant that i was able to shape the internship into what I wanted which lead to it being more enjoyable and satisfying than if I had no control in what I did. I would recommened that you should have a think beforehand of what you want to try out - if you do want to spend even just a day in another service line or spend some time observing senior-level work, then mention it beforehand or in the first week to resourcing and they can try and sort it out for you.

Everyone was friendly and welcoming and didn't make you feel out of place. Colleagues would invite you to come to lunch with them and invite you to social events within the service line to make you feel like part of the team and not so much just visitors.

We were assigned a people manager (manager level and above) and a 'buddy' (associate level) in the first week. Their roles were to support you throughout your internship, answer your questions etc. The 'buddy' system is great because it gives you a link from the very start to more peer-level colleagues where you can chat informally with them, ask them what you might think are stupid questions, get honest answers about what the work is like. Guidance by the people manager was not that good but I guess it depends on the person you are assigned to. I didn't feel like I could ask them questions other than within the two/three specific meetings we had to have at the start and end of the internship period. In terms of supervisor/in-charges of the actual client engagement, they were friendly in my experience. Mainly I was supported by lower level people who formed a supervisory role more so than the actual management but they were willing to help as well when they were available.

How busy you are really depends on what client you are on and what stage of the process they are at. I had quite laidback experiences in terms of how busy I was. I didn't really have to work much overtime. Started at 9, finishes at 5.30 most days. And only ever was working an hour extra if I hadn't made as much progress as I wanted to or finished the task that I was doing. And this wasn't enforced by my colleagues that I had to stay longer. On external audit, you are likely to have work readily available for you to do. On internal audit (what I spent some time on), it was slightly more difficult to allocate work to me so there was at the start some gaps where I had to do other stuff. There were times where I was bored and waiting for work to do, but as an associate that probably won't happen.

I wasn't given as much respsonsibility as others might have been given but that was due to the work I was put on. They do trust you with confidential information from clients, will let you get on with a task and you can ask questions if you have any difficulties. You don't really do any work which doesn't get looked over before it's submitted or anything, but I believe that's standard practice anyway even if you are a full-time associate they normally review your work. I didn't run any client meetings/phone calls etc. but I did attend and was encouraged by my in-charge to speak out if I had any thoughts or suggestions so I was given some extra responsibility in that way.

The internship did let me develop my confidence, understanding of professional services and ability to network and establish relationships. I have gained exposure to real client work, the financial processes within a client beyond just what is published in the annual accounts, exposure to the systems used by PwC which will put me ahead slightly at the start of the (hopefully) graduate role. The training I received is only useful really for audit and that's how it's supposed to be I guess. My experience won't really be helpful in my degree mainly because I don't do an accounting-related degree. However, I have developed my understanding of the importance of being proactive about what you want which will be useful.

I was in a regional office and the people were almost without exception friendly and welcoming. People were willing to answer your questions, willing to help you with the systems in the office. I didn't feel too out of place as an intern or anything even when the other interns weren't around with me. A couple of social events for the whole service line were organised which were nice to have - not only to enjoy time with the interns but to socialise with other colleagues and find out more about their experiences.

Generally very well-organised - there was a clear plan for certain things that had to happen e.g. the training, event in London, the last day. The planning of what clients you would work on could have been better with more consideration for where you lived, whether you were able to drive etc. But the logistics of doing that might be too difficult.

The company put quite a lot of money into the three days of residential training - you get a nice hotel room, ensuite, 3 meals a day paid for, drink tokens for the evening. You get 2.5 days of technical training with two tutors (senior associate and above) from offices around the UK where you learn about the audit process. They provide you with a weekly webex to learn about the different service lines within the company, personal branding and networking, pitching and presentation. You have access to e-learns to develop your own learning in any freetime during or after work hours (if you wanted). They really want to be attracted to the firm, and they want to retain you.

Very appealing- there are many opportunities within the firm and as they want to retain you once they've invested in your development, they are willing to let you rotate within the firm etc. There is a clear career progression set out, and working for the Big 4 puts you in good stead for any future job you want to apply for. Working at PwC is never going to be bad in terms of employment prospects. About 95% of interns get offered the job from the summer internship, and so your chances are very high. That 5% are said to be the people who get drunk, fall asleep, swear at clients etc. so as long as you aren't one of them, you most likley will get the offer.

Interns made an effort to organise after-work drinks, there were some end of year social events organised by the service line as well which interns were allowed to attend. Was sometimes difficult to have drinks because people were in different places but it sometimes worked out and everyone was very friendly

Cost of living is quite high but as I lived by the office for university it wasn't much of an issue cost-wise.

Quite good, didn't actually go out at night while working though but after-work drinks were nice

Yeah, social events within service line, after-work drinks.