Company: EY
Date: 2012-07-05
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Associate to senior
Pros: Big 4 training experience is requested on a lot of job specifications
Working with a lot of people of a similar age so good opportunities to make friends
Great exposure to challenging roles, always working above your level
Auditing large companies and communicating with top level staff in these clients
Cons: As mentioned above, always working above your level yet not really trained in what is required yet when anything goes wrong all responsibility falls on you
Long hours and high expectations from management
Good work is not praised enough yet small mistakes blown out of proportion
Promotion comes to those who escape the most work and get into managements good books, rarely the hardest workers or most technically skilled who are promoted as they are too busy actually working
Managers argue over staff bookings and time yet it is always the senior who suffers usually working simultaneously on several jobs at once ( up to 5 in my experience)