Vacation Student Review

Item: Vacation Student at KPMG
Rating: 4.7
Author: Anonymous

at KPMG

Internship (1 Month+)

Accounting, Audit

Bristol

Review Submitted: July 2026

Overall Rating

4.7 /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 - Overview of Role

4.8/5 - Skills Development

4.5/5 - Support and Guidance

5/5 - Company Culture

5/5 - Overall Experience

5/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

Completing work designated by mentors and managers such as minutes, mapping, balances, attending meetings, process walkthroughs.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Encouraged to take responsibility of your work and ask for help or more work as well, but it wasn’t intensive work and could easily be looked over and amended by colleagues if need be

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?

Improved Excel skills, general communication, attention to detail

How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

5/5

How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

4/5

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?

Everybody was happy to help, I was introduced to my performance manager and performance lead. Everybody was super friendly and it was clear who I could go to if needed

How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?

5/5

How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

4/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

Everyone was very friendly and welcoming and we even had a few socials in my time here

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

5/5

How would you rate the social opportunities?

5/5

How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

5/5

How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?

5/5

Overall Experience

To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

I really enjoyed my time here and getting to know everyone. It feels like more surface level work you’re doing but it would be hard to do much more in such a short time frame. I looked forward to coming in each day

Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship

5/5

Please rate how your experience met your expectations

5/5

Recommendations & Advice

Would you recommend KPMG to a friend?

Yes

What advice would you give to others applying to KPMG

Definitely put the time and effort into your applications with KPMG, they provided the most support out of all my application processes and they genuinely care about you as an employee and intern. KPMG are a great company and the values really resonate with my own