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Overall, this internship with PwC has been a very positive experience. PwC make a real effort with their interns to involve them in valuable client-facing work and also invest much more time and money in your training than I had originally expected. It is one of the real strengths of working for such a large, global firm that they have the resources to give their summer interns really high quality training that is specifically tailored to the internship before we start work at our chosen offices. I find it hard to imagine that smaller firms have the resources to equip their interns with so much training instead of purely just learning 'on-the-job'.

I absolutely felt valued by my colleagues. From my very first day after our training week, I was on client-facing work and working within a team of associates. I was assigned work just as any of the other associates would have been and my work was treated just as theirs would have been. Of course, everyone is happy to answer any sort of question you've got so this helps when you're working on something that you maybe feel is slightly out of your depth. In the end, it comes down to responsibility. You feel so valued as a PwC intern because you are given responsibility within a team and are not just a bystander.

Guidance and support are central to the working culture of PwC. From the very start of your internship, you are assigned two 'buddies' who act as informal mentors and are there to do answer your really dumb questions, show you where to get lunch, and remind you of everybody's names etc. You are also assigned a 'people manager' who acts as a more formal mentor and with whom you set your performance objectives and can go to with any questions about timetabling, getting feedback etc.

The worst thing as an intern is to have nothing to do because it's boring but also it doesn't give you the chance you want to impress your colleagues. This is certainly not the case at PwC. I have been very busy at PwC mainly doing audit work at clients. This has meant a fair bit of travelling which has slightly curtailed my ability to do other things, e.g. sport/gym or socialising, after work but I would rather have it that way around than be sat in the office trying to find things to do.

You certainly don't run the show as a PwC intern - that would probably end badly for both you and the firm (!) but I have been given much more responsibility than I had expected. All the work I have done has been treated just as any other associates. By this I mean it is reviewed by a more senior associate and then goes through a final review from a manager or director. I was also trusted to engage with clients on a one-to-one basis during the audit work. You are treated as an asset rather than a liability.

Obviously, at PwC, the work I have done and the skills I have developed are largely related to accounting. However, I read Geography at university (it really doesn't matter to PwC what you read at university as long you are high achiever in that area) and so these skills probably won't assist me a great deal in my degree studies. In terms of thinking beyond university, though, the skills I have learnt will be invaluable to my future career hopefully either with PwC or somewhere else in the City and the world of finance.

The atmosphere in the Norwich office for PwC is fantastic. People are certainly working hard however because most people are working in teams, there is generally people chatting and people are always happy to answer questions. Most of the PwC offices are brand new with large open-plan offices with 'break-out areas' for chilling out during lunch break or just having an informal chat with someone. Also, nobody has their own specific desk so you end up sitting next to loads of different people which is really fun and means that everyone gets to know each other.

PwC clearly put a huge amount of time into their internships because they are really slick in terms of their organisation. I know what I'll be working on from the first time I log on to the PwC network. You get fantastic training that is specifically tailored to the internship and are given a brand new work laptop to use for the duration of your internship (you have to give it back at the end, sadly). I can't fault the organisation and effort put in by the recruitment teams behind the internship.

I can't really see how PwC could have done more to give me personal training or to aid my development. Before you start the internship, I had three days of intensive PwC technical classroom based training. This training takes place at a hotel and all the other interns are there so it is a really good opportunity to meet the people you'll work with. After that there are an endless number of e-learn tutorials for any topic you might encounter during your internship. And finally, there are weekly WebEx presentations that provide up-to-date insight into the goings-on at PwC and also provide other information on other parts of the business.

Future employment prospects are (hopefully) really good as an intern at PwC. As an intern you go through the same application process as the graduates so if you are successful in your internship application, both PwC and you know that you have the right characteristics and capabilities to go beyond the internship into a graduate role. As long as you work hard in the internship and do not lose your work laptop, I reckon you have a fairly good chance of gaining an offer for the grad scheme.

Yes, absolutely. The residential training at the start of the internship is a really good way of meeting fellow interns and there is an instant messaging system for you to keep in touch with them over the course of the internship. Otherwise, if your work can be done in the office then you can go out to grab lunch together with your colleagues, however if you are out at a client site, at the end of the day people head back to wherever they live so it is harder to engage in the after-work social scene that otherwise goes on.

Norwich is in general a fairly cheap place to live and socialise so the costs associated with this are small especially considering that PwC pay their interns.

Norwich is a 西瓜视频 city so the nightlife is good. There is no pressure to go out but the opportunity is there if you want to.

Yes, definitely. There are loads of sports clubs and other social clubs. Again, it slightly depends on what kind of work you're doing as to whether you have the time in the day to participate in the activities outside of work. For example, if you are working on a client that is a long drive from where you live, it can be hard to get back in time in the evening to get in involved in the sports clubs. If you're doing work in the office though then the opportunities are absolutely there.