Flying Start Intern/Trainee Review
at PwC
Internship (1 Month+)
Audit
London
Review Submitted: March 2025
Overall Rating
4 /5
The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!
3/5
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Overview of Role
4.5/5
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Skills Development
4.5/5
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Support and Guidance
3.5/5
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Company Culture
4/5
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Overall Experience
4/5
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Future Career Prospects
Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
Intern -> helping the team with their tasks, being given smaller, less significant entities to be responsible for, doing testing, picking the samples, documenting the results of testing, liasing with the client about any queries the team may have.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
Flying Starts tend to start right in the busy audit period, so it varied massively; on my second client, I had tasks specifically allocated to me from the beginning that were entirely my responsibility, compared to my first client, where I joined in the middle of the audit, so at best, helped others with documentation on their tasks.
Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
3/5
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
I have gained sufficiency in Excel, and the systems relevant to PwC, and developed my soft skills such as communication both orally and written.
How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
3/5
How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
5/5
How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
5/5
Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
5/5
Support and Guidance
How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
I have been incentivised to ask any and all questions I may have, and I have taken them up on that offer, asking my seniors, whether they be Associates, up to the Senior Managers allocated to the team.
How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
4/5
How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
5/5
Company Culture
What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
Very open and live-and-let-live, it was overall quite jovial, a lot of the time while doing work I would hear laughter in the background, and when I was working later hours, the team would encourage me to do what was best for myself, and leave when I felt drained, demonstrating their care for mental wellbeing.
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
4/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
4/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
3/5
How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
3/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
I've learned so much, and met so many great people who have made this placement infinitely more smoother than I expected when I first joined, so I have enjoyed these few months massively.
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
4/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
4/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at PwC
4/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend PwC to a friend?
No
What advice would you give to others applying to PwC
It can be a large amount of work that one may not expect if they were applying for my degree, but you're able to get in the swing of it very quickly, so to not stress.
