Company: EY
Date: 2017-10-13
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Know what you're getting into
Pros: There are some nice people here, it pays well, the benefits and perks are solid, and if you want to do accounting or auditing, it's a good place to be, because that is most of what they do.
Cons: Prepare to spend hours upon hours responding to pointless mass emails and doing unnecessary but mandatory administrative tasks that all employees must do on a regular basis, such as filling out independence forms, planning your hours for engagements in the future, recording time, filling out expense reports, explaining why you didn't spend the exact number of hours working as you predicted you would that week and therefore caused a variance, completing endless training modules, attending "counseling family" meetings and calls, writing self-reviews, asking for feedback in the feedback system, and I could go on and on. Also, there are nice people, but there is also the occasional soulless psychopath in management so try to avoid him or her. Additionally, a lot of the new hires and I were misled into thinking "Advisory" meant strategic business consulting, but it actually means either IT or financial auditing, depending on where EY decides to place you. The word "auditing" was NEVER thrown around during the recruiting process, and I would never have chosen to apply for the job had I known what it truly was. ALSO, one engagement I was on involved working in a trailer with no windows, no cell phones, and literal mice scurrying around and leaving droppings on the desks (which were already covered with dust and dirt to begin with), basically causing every day to become a Clorox-fest along with the 12 or 13 hours of IT auditing fun (I only worked eight, because I was planning to quit at that point and stopped caring, and was laughed at and frowned upon for this!). That being said, I also had some good experiences, getting to travel to various places in the country on some engagements (including NYC and Philadelphia), and working with some really great, smart people. I think it's possible to have a good experience here, but it's hit-or-miss, and you have to sort of wheedle your way into the good engagements and projects or else you will get stuck in something bad!