Company: Deloitte
Date: 2013-10-10
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Great Internship Experience
Pros: 1. As an intern, the corporate treatment was great. The pay was fantastic at $22/hr. and I felt like all the full-time CPAs were my peers even as a lowly undergraduate student intern. 

2. The environment was very stable for a corporate job. Tax accounting is certainly not investment banking, but with the big clients Deloitte has, it's not as crazy as it can be. Although I was just a summer intern (non-busy season) and I heard busy season gets hectic. Still, stable employment and good first-year pay (around $53,000).
Cons: 1. I didn't like a service job, at least in tax. It was interesting learning about different tax entities and how professionals approach their clients based on their tax needs, i.e. tax structure, but I never felt like I was a part of the company. I just felt like myself and all my coworkers were just taking advantage of the tax business because of the demand taxes play in the corporate world. 

2. I wasn't too crazy about the people. They all seemed to complain a little too much about how un-fresh their salads were everyday from the same places they always order lunch. I guess when your job is secure, you need something to complain about.

3. I didn't get a good feel for management. There was no sense of teamwork, but just of "have you done your job yet?". I didn't even meet all the people in my office until about the sixth week on the job.