Company: EY
Date: 2014-07-22
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Good Opportunities, High Burnout, low control of experiences
Pros: EY is a fantastic company, great people, great culture and largely great experiences.  The firm has done a great job making it seem small through counseling families.  The people here genuinely care about you as a person and the firm really does invest in great "milestone" events.
Cons: It's hard to really control your experiences here.  On the Advisory side of the house, EY is still trying to figure out what it wants to be and what it wants to message to the market.  A lot of the policies and procedures are still audit focused which can be over burdensome and bureaucratic sometimes.  Management Consultants will be worked pretty hard  and will usually be sent where the money is.  Flexibility messaging is still geared towards audit busy season as opposed to what works for other parts of the business

Sure the firm has invested in "Experience Managers"  to help with placement.  I have found that these Experience Managers rarely have conversations with you about where you want to go with your career.  It is a largely go it alone approach