Company: EY
Date: 2014-10-18
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Great intent, but serious flaws
Pros: - All the people in EY Advisory are really committed to doing a great job
- Committment to training and growing the people
- Genuinly nice people to work with
- Well thought of by clients
- You don't have to work long hours or stay away (out of London/SE England) much
Cons: - Sadly EY is institutionally racist and sexist.  This has been addressed in the recruitment process, but once in, women and BME employees are graded lower and not promoted.  This is well known by management, has been openly communicated for 5 years but has not improved.
- Weak leadership who are happy to see chaos caused by gaps and overlaps rather that making transparent explicit decisions.
- Underperformance at the business level - the target is 15% annual growth, yet 8% is seen as good (linked to above).
- Once you're in you won't get a decent pay rise even if promoted.
- Weak tier of Directors who generally have very little experience of major transformation programmes resulting in lack of coordination and consequently hard work on the ground.
- Highly disengaged workforce and high staff turnover (20%).