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Here’s Your Public Accounting Interns Open Thread for Summer 2012

Posted on by Caleb Newquist

If you're like me, you checked out on earlier than normal this week due to the long weekend of bad decisions ahead. It's a welcome reprieve for those of you that are firmly entrenched in the day-to-day amusement park that is public accounting. However, very soon the latest crop of presumptive capital market servants will be join you in the bliss. Yes, I'm talking about the summer interns and they are getting restless:

Can you please get another Summer Interns open thread going soon?  I'm starting in two weeks and need somewhere to be anxious. 
It's understandable that these young business casual soldiers are slightly uneasy about the hours at the copier that will fill their summer days, not to mention the possibility of hazing, pranks, and ultimately, the possibility of a fulltime offer.
 
So consider this your thread for questions, answers, advice (good and bad are both welcome), directions to the tickmark room, and anything else that is appropriate. If you're still not satisfied then email us your intern query with "Intern Question" in the subject line and if it's not the stupidest thing we've ever been asked, we'll hopefully get to it. Play nice.  

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Fulltime Offer Watch ’10: Big 4 Class of 2011

Now that it’s officially August, that means a few things:

1) Everyone around starts bitching how summer is almost over

2) The tax compliance folks take a field trip to the nearest Radio Shack to stock up on their batteries for the two and a half month stretch and

3) This year’s interns starting getting their offers for fulltime employment.


This of course means that your coffee jockeys and Xerox operators will start stressing over everything that they’ve ever done this summer and whether it’s good enough to be blessed with the honor and privilege to attain fulltime Big 4 employment.

So if you veterans out there have been doing your job, you’ve shaped some fine, young, booze-drenched minds into someone that is going to your new associate next fall. If you feel like giving them some credit below. And interns, if you’ve gotten some good news (official or otherwise) jump for joy below and share your experiences – the good, the bad, the truly mortifying (extra bonus points here).

UPDATE: Straight out of the rumor mill, we’ve heard that some E&Y interns have already found out that they won’t be partying with Mickey & the Gang:

There was a round of interns who were let go on Friday. They were told to come in to the office and terminated, offers not given. Saves the expense of sending them down to Disney (the interns that remain leave this Wednesday). There were at least 3 let go in NY.