Hi Justin,

Thanks for your question. I'm guessing by experience other divisions you mean to experience working in them rather than with them. I know some other companies do rotational programmes where you do say 6 months in one division then move to another. On the EY Summer Internship or Graduate programmes however, you will be working in a specific service line (business area), team and role.

For example, I applied to transaction diligence, which is a sub service line (service line is what EY calls divisions) within Strategy & Transactions (one of the 4 service lines, the others being Tax, Assurance & Consulting). When I started my internship, I therefore worked as an intern in Transaction Diligence. When I got my grad scheme offer, it was to return to that team.

So, in terms of your actual role, you will be in the specific team you apply to, so you don't really get to experience working in other teams - unless this is something you put forward yourself. You could potentially move to another sub-service line or service line by applying internally or do a secondment for a number of months in another team. This isn't guaranteed or a part of the graduate programme/internship however and depends on both what you want to do and the need in the business. For secondments, it would most commonly be to another sub-service line within your service line, although I know they can also be across service lines.

In terms of experiencing other areas of the business without necessarily working in them, you'll have a varying level of experience of this depending on what role you're in. I work in TD as I mentioned, and so as part of the deals process, I'll often work alongside people in Tax and occasionally Transaction Strategy & Execution (TSE), Law, analytics, and others. So, you get some exposure to the other areas of the business, but the degree to which you do depends on the engagement. Sometimes you might be working very closely with another team and even be involved in some of their output, other times it will just be that you're working on the same project with no interaction.

So, in summary, if you want to experience working in different areas of the business, whilst this is definitely something you could explore via secondments or applying to new roles internally, it’s not the default as part of the graduate programme or internship. If it’s just experience by exposure to other teams, then you will get this over time, albeit this depends on your own team and the specific projects you work on. Hope this helps, let me know if you have any follow up questions by replying below :)

13 December, 2023 09:37