EY

audit

June - August 2021 • Irvine, CA

What I liked

Learning some new softwares and some basic accounting

What I wish was different

More client exposure

Advice

Don't do audit if you get bored of repetitive work easily.

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Technology Risk Intern

June - August 2021 • San Antonio, TX

What I liked

I loved how supportive and welcoming the team was. On day one, I understood being a member of the EY family. Additionally, the caliber of the team was exceptional. They brought out the best in me!

What I wish was different

I wish my internship had not occurred during the pandemic, however, EY still gave us a fabulous experience. I look forward to experiencing the office when the pandemic has ended.

Advice

I would recommend practicing your Excel skills and network as much as possible! I also recommend taking advantage of upskilling opportunities. The badges are a great resource.

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Intern

June - August 2021 • New York City, NY

What I liked

Very structured with lots of opportunities to network

What I wish was different

nothing

Advice

Be willing to learn

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Launch Intern

June - August 2021 • Detroit, MI

What I liked

I loved the ability to be a part of a rotational program where I got experience in tax, audit, and consulting. I was able to contribute to my engagement teams and sit in on team/client meetings! I was able to learn so much about the field from this internship that I can now apply to the classroom!

What I wish was different

I wish there was more of an ability to do work in the office. The internship was a hybrid setup. Although I was always able to go into the office myself, my engagement team didn’t necessarily always want to work in person.

Advice

Network, network, network!!! There is so much to learn from others, and everyone truly wants to see you succeed! People’s doors are always open to talk. Don’t be afraid to ask questions, because everyone is always so eager to answer them and it’s such a great opportunity to learn.

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Assurance Intern

June - August 2021 • Boston, MA

What I liked

I really enjoyed working as a team and learning from mentors.

What I wish was different

I wish I had been able to be in person more. Unfortunately, due to Covid, I was only able to go into the office in person for 1 week, and I never got the chance to visit a client's office.

Advice

Never be afraid to ask for help! Asking for help is something that I have struggled with in the past, but I found that I learned the most when I reached out to my team and asked them to walk me through steps I was confused on.

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Business Valuation Intern

June - August 2021 • Atlanta, GA

What I liked

-Comprehensive Training -Opportunity to work on client engagements -Access to senior employees

What I wish was different

-Longer internship program

Advice

-Practice your financial modeling skills and review accounting fundamentals prior to the start of the internship to hit the ground running.

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Climate Change and Sustainability Services Intern

June - August 2021 • Denver, CO

What I liked

A great introduction to the world of ESG and ESG reporting. I learned a lot from my work and from my superiors throughout the experience.

What I wish was different

Advice

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Technology Consulting intern

June - August 2021 • New York City, NY

What I liked

Great teaming, everyone was very open to helping interns get a grip on their work.

What I wish was different

I wish it would have been in person.

Advice

Network as much as possible.

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Launch Intern

June - August 2021 • Boston, MA

What I liked

Outstanding work culture and people. Also learned how to use platforms such as Canva and Atlas.

What I wish was different

In-person format.

Advice

Ask questions, be engaged, and check-in with your manager constantly. They understand you're new and don't know how to do certain things.

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Accountant Intern

June - August 2021 • Richmond, VA

What I liked

I enjoyed the opportunity to meet other students and experience several different service lines such as audit, tax, and tech risk consulting.

What I wish was different

I would have loved to have had an extended experience to gain a better feel of the company and build meaningful relationships. It took some time getting used to but once I got the hang of it, the internship came to an end.

Advice

Try your best to socialize and don't allow fear or anxiety to control your voice. Everyone is learning and developing. You aren't chosen because you know everything but because you are teachable and willing to learn.

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CBC Intern at Ernst & Young

June - August 2021 • McLean, VA

What I liked

The welcoming environment, counselors keeping up with you, the perks, the company paying for expenses (food, internet, cellphone), the fact that I had a Senior who I could talk to freely at any point.

What I wish was different

I wish it had been tailored to the sub-service lines I actually wanted to explore.

Advice

ask lots of questions and always update your seniors!!!

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Tax Intern

June - July 2021 • Tamuning, Dededo

What I liked

Friendly co-workers and very accommodating.

What I wish was different

Work was monotonous

Advice

Be willing to be ask for help while doing an internship, it's better than doing bad work.

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Launch Intern

June - August 2021 • San Francisco, CA

What I liked

Good people and a lot of good programming on being a good employee. Nice exposure to business lines.

What I wish was different

Advice

Be ready to learn and try and meet as many people as you can!

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Enterprise Risk Consulting Intern

June - August 2021 • Boston, MA

What I liked

The people are very nice and really willing to help you succeed. I learned a lot and was able to gravitate towards things I liked more or wanted to learn more about. I was also able to complete strategy coursework in my free time, but there were several different options to choose from with certificate opportunities.

What I wish was different

It was hard coming out of COVID to have an internship. Many things were remote and networking had to be done by setting up meetings with people instead of casually meeting in the office. Ultimately there were a lot of challenges all companies had to face, and EY did it pretty well.

Advice

Network as much as you can!!! Everyone has a different view on the company and the roles they work in and it will help you find what you like or don't like. People are very willing to talk and help you so you should utilize it. In a remote working environment, you have to try extra hard to make those memorable connections.

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Launch Intern

June - August 2021 • Detroit, MI

What I liked

I liked the rotations that allowed me to experience new industries, as well as the collaboration and bonding with other interns that was made possible. Sitting in on meetings was insightful and let me gain first-hand experience with what working in the professional world is like.

What I wish was different

I wish there could've been more in-person interaction, but a lot of that was due to the pandemic and safety concerns. Being on computers and Zoom for several hours at a time was very tiring, and I believe more frequent built-in breaks would've been helpful in increasing engagement.

Advice

Go in with an open mind and reach out to anyone who interests you. EY does a great job of making senior leadership accessible, and it will pay off if you put in enough effort.

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Consulting Intern

March - June 2021 • San José, San José

What I liked

Was very interesting working in such a large, corporate, bureaucratic firm with many procedures and trainings and with branches around the world.

What I wish was different

Was a very boring internship. Entry level, mostly excel.

Advice

Any experience with a firm with a big name is going to be helpful in your career aspirations.

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Financial Audit Intern

June - August 2021 • Los Angeles, CA

What I liked

My internship experience started with a welcoming first week of introduction, ice breakers, and lessons meant to help me better understand the work that we do at EY. The first week felt like the first week at school where I get to meet my colleagues, get to know the work that we do, and guide me towards a successful experience at EY. It was a great introduction to the following week in which we got to work on real teams and serve EY’s clients. I was assigned to work on FOX Corporation which turned out to be the best audit team and an amazing start to my internship. Marlena Radic was one of the staff’s on this engagement. She was the most helpful and valuable asset I had on this engagement. She would always be on call for me to ask questions, assign me to work, and guide me through the engagement. In fact, the team was so incredible that I had a chance to hear the partner on the engagement speak about the structure of FOX and their business as well as actively pose questions on the business and discuss its sustainability. I had the opportunity to always participate in team meetings and I felt valuable at every stage of the audit. Learning audit in school was one thing, but experiencing it in real life was a completely different thing. I had the opportunity to observe the stages of an audit I have learned on paper, in a large company such as FOX, and gain a completely different understanding of financial statements. I confirmed the importance of our accounting foundation in the real-life audit because every small document we analyzed was founded upon the most basic concepts we learned in the first class of accounting. Auditing in my experience was like solving a big equation of accounting information and comparing whether this equation held true in our case. Put in the simplest words we performed analyses across different documents of information and ran simple equations to see if the numbers balanced. This all wouldn’t make sense to me at the beginning hadn’t I asked questions and used the knowledge from my accounting classes to understand why. The important lesson I learned during my first week is to always ask questions that start with why, before asking questions starting with how. This lesson helped me understand the interrelationships between cash flows and income statements. This ultimately led to my understanding that all of the financial documents depend on each other for accuracy and that the big equation from Econ 3a must always hold true: Assets equal liabilities plus equity. Everything else is merely an expended equation of this, always circulating net income back to equity.

What I wish was different

My second week at the firm was a little tougher because I haven’t had the same opportunity to ask why. I was staffed on a small private company developing games on phones. I ended up doing a lot of how’s without forming much understanding of the work I did. The engagement was understaffed and the lack of teamwork on this engagement showed in my lesser understanding of the work I did. However, it is always important to take lessons even from our bad experiences. I learned that a lack of teamwork leads to a less productive engagement, which can quickly turn the work we do into repetitive motions that become the motions of boredom that all accountants dwell upon. This is why it was important for me to take my time when doing the work and try to understand it for myself. I specifically remember the large 15-tab, 1000-column, and 200-row deferred revenue schedule I worked on the first few days. It felt like a prank with an endless amount of unnecessary numbers and information with no end in sight. However, working on this document from beginning to end lead me to understand the whole cycle of analysis we perform in the audit. The vouching and tracing concepts from my auditing class were finally put into practice. The endless documents quickly turned into a large equation of grouped numbers leading to a simple balancing solution between the supporting and the working documents. Bad team communication and unclear assignments have forced me to learn how to work on my own and have made me more comfortable with making mistakes in the work that I do. This has ultimately lead me to become more confident in relying on the knowledge that I possess and the research that I do.

Advice

I think of success as a simple pyramid which foundation is founded upon one’s motivation. I truly believe that any one of us can obtain the same amount of success if we have the motivation to do so, but success is abstract. It isn’t the same for everyone. It all depends on the underlying motivation that inspires us to become the best version of ourselves. One can be successful in creating a happy family, while the other can be the CEO of Google. We define our success and choose our career paths and are successful in our own beautiful ways. Personally, I am highly motivated to get to a point in my life where I can truly make a difference. Somewhere, where my voice can not only be heard but can also make a change. This path leads me to the next step in my pyramid of success which is work. The amount of work I put into something depends on my motivation to succeed in that area of my life. Therefore the last step in the pyramid is my desired level of success or my ultimate goal in life. The level of success only depends on the amount of work put towards my goal, and the amount of work I put into something depends on my motivation. This internship has proven to me that my underlying desire for success is backed with a valid underlying motivation. All of the hard work I have put into school and my previous jobs have led me to this moment. An internship at a big four accounting firm, and a full-time job offer from this multinational company. During my two-month internship, I have gained an enormous amount of experience and knowledge. I have learned invaluable skills and lessons on my engagement teams while networking with successful professionals, and working with world-known clients around the world. I have improved my understanding of audit work, and have revisited important concepts learned in class. I got the confidence to perform research and use my knowledge to contribute to the engagement team. I learned to always ask questions starting with “why”, before the ones starting with “how,” as they are the ones that will benefit me in the long run. I learned to effectively network and communicate my passions to my colleagues and supervisors because they can only help me achieve those if I am vocal about them. I finally understood that they are there to support me and help me achieve those wishes and passions, because only then can I be the most productive asset to them and the firm. Following this experience, I feel confident, motivated, and ready to continue working hard, and look forward to starting my full-time career at EY, where I know I will be able to constantly learn and grow, and achieve these extraordinary goals I have set for myself.

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enterprise risk consulting intern

June - August 2021 • Los Angeles, CA

What I liked

The people and all the resources provided to gain more knowledge and succeed in your career.

What I wish was different

N/A

Advice

Reach out to everyone and try to get put on different types of projects

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Business Consultant

June - August 2021 • Chicago, IL

What I liked

The culture at EY is like no other. Everyone is willing to help you grow and everyone genuinely wants each other to succeed. I created great bonds with some of my peers in such a short amount of time.