Company: EY
Date: 2021-01-29
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current

Great place to work
Pros: EY will challenge you and client engagements will force you to perform and get you out of your comfort zone for sure. But it teaches you to be the best. EY helps (more like forces) you to be confident and develop your executive presence. 
The benefits are amazing, pay is above market. EY takes great care of its people. 
The well-being fund gives employees $1000 for wellness and fitness per year (e.g., gym equipment, memberships, meal delivery services, home office ergonomics, personal fitness trainings, etc.).
Work from home when not traveling (since Covid, no travel so full time work from home)
Managers and leaders in certain practice (e.g. cybersecurity) are extremely nice and accommodating. Teams work together and sharing work templates to help each other out.
Access to all relevant training - they'll pay for you to attend boot camps/trainings relevant to your position. If it's a certification relevant to your position, they give merit bonuses if you complete certifications.
Cons: Pre Covid, travel was weekly, Mondays to Thursdays for most clients. Extensive travel for client facing engagements.

No clear KPI for promotion - even if you do meet or exceed their made up metrics, you can still get skipped over for promotion. It's a people industry so if you're not an outgoing, networking and highly likeable or close to a type A, don't count on being promoted quickly. If you're the hands-on-keyboard, engineer, quiet type, this position may not be for you. 

Some teams are clique-ish. If you're not part of the cool kids crew, you won't get staffed in good decent engagements. It's really up to you to be outgoing and make connections, be visible, and market yourself, otherwise, you'll get left behind.

Hours can be long depending on the client or engagement.

Certain leaders/managers/senior managers will sell and SOW that half of them don't really know the work it takes to do them, then you'd have to fix it once work is sold. For example, they'd sell work that typically would last 10 weeks, sell it for 6 weeks just to make the sale, and whoever comes in to actually do work will have to make sure they meet what the timeline.