Company: EY
Date: 2015-04-12
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Accounting Advisory
Pros: -  Experience is highly recognized by industry and banks  
-  Add value to CV if in the early stage of career
Cons: - Overselling the position and providing inaccurate job information during hiring process 

- Very very few advisory projects / opportunities available, and hence most people are either unbooked or doing admin stuff  across different levels on regular basis. 

- Leadership feels giving you advisory work is a reward you should be extremely grateful for. To fully ''utilize'' people as resources (due to sadly few advisory projects / clients), they will put people to AUDIT to bring in revenue from other teams to create this misleading growth that is in fact not driven by advisory projects. 

- However,  despite lack of projects, they still keep recruiting people internally (from other countries) and externally by overselling the position with inaccurate information (not telling people the fact that management will put you to AUDIT).  

-If people don't please management they way they wanted it (e.g. doing face time or pretending that you are keen on AUDIT), management will tell employees they are not incentivized to ''help'' them and take them off AUDIT, which on every individual level seems like a threat. 

- Confusing recruiting criteria. Many managers and executives that have very limited relevant experiences/skills required of advisory job (or even AUDIT) are hired. Some even struggle with language.  

- Nasty blaming culture. backstabbing, putting blame down on junior people, taking other people's credit and reporting upward are not uncommon. 

- They have a tendency to downgrade people hired externally to slow down their career progression. The pay is okay among Big 4, but much lower than industry for the same level.