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My thoughts from having had an IA roommate for years that went from C to near SM before quitting, and my observations from having hung out mostly with IA friends for 8 years. It’s very structured and regimented work. They follow a specific cycle and arguably have fixed periods a year when they’re busy. Mostly you’ll be working with a few clients and rotating between them year round. Personally I think that internal audit is better than being in external audit but I’m sure there are differing preferences here. Pay is on average starts a little less than the rest of the other practices within Deloitte’s Risk and Financial Advisory but it even out over time. I’ve found the culture to be pretty hospitable and amicable. I think this is mainly driven by my previous point where people tend to rotate year round across a few clients, so there is incentive on keeping the environment healthy since you’re working with a lot of the same people continuously. The more sociable a person is, the faster and better they acclimate and fit, but the “auditor” shield ensures introverts do fine as well. Personally I’m a hobbyist and if I were to do it all over again, I’d probably choose to start my career in IA so I can focus on my personal interests while still being on a steady climb up the ladder to the top. Hope this helps
No, it's not inclusive for introverts. Introverts are boxed to one corner while the good things and infos are being usurped by the extroverts, leaving leftovers for introverts.
Audit environment is not good for introverts and exceptions are insignificant.
As regards environment, it's filled with so much sycophancy and politics, favouritism and bad leadership when it comes to conflict resolution. It adopts a military approach so that when juniors speck up against toxic seniors, they face retaliation. Retaliations like not being included on engagements (gatekeeping jobs), targeted bullying, silence of leaders until the victim is frustrated to leave the firm. If you are introverted, serious minded (audit guys are generally unseriouse with work), uphold values and ethics, you may be seen as an holier than thou person and thus face these attacks.
Your introversion would make them perceive you as a patsy so that they try to take advantage of you by dumping their own work and frustration on you. If you push back and set boundary against such (because it's unprofessional and incivil to dump your duties on others given that you all charge time for your work done) then they attack you as an enemy and ruin your image before other seniors. You are not allowed to defend yourself, if you use speak up channel, the assailant is immune. They ruin your mental health.
On the flip side, you are paid as at when due, get promotion yearly, get bonus at the end of the season. But pay is still industry average, nothing special.
You work like horse on busy season, you won't burn out if you can manage your time well and set boundaries and push back work that's not yours (work allocated to someone else or expected to be done by someone else). If you have no interest in audit plan your move after the first year. Not everyone makes partner in the industry. You work less in less busy season just trainings and workshops and seminars.