Company: EY
Date: 2011-04-21
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former

Heavy Politics, Inhumane hours, and kiss bud hierarchy in ITAS - Compliance Technology Enablement
Pros: - Great Name on Resume, lots of experience among various big companies.
- Unlimited Coffee with various style in the pantry (for a good reason)
- Free dinners if you work more than 10 hours.
- Traveling at times.
Cons: - No desks available in 5 Times Sqaure, mostly booked by hoteling last minute.

- You mixed with many new people with little or no experience who are the same level as you.

- Is all about who you know, not what you know.  

- Most folks are only good at Project Management skills, delegate, and more delegate.

- Kiss bud mentality to all partners and senior managers, for more proposal and projects so you can get their approval during annual round tables for promotion.

- All projects are overpromise, and over delivered, with long hours to re-work on things that doesn't make sense.

- Projects are underestimated with much efforts, to have a global intitiative developing a process, standardize methodology, and document, and train employees with a group of 20 consultants for 5 global units.  You're talking about 8AM - 12AM with working on weekends, with weekend nights.  An Asian senior manager in particular in the group work people like slaves to conduct his perfectionist rework for powerpoint slides on a friday night until 2AM.

- No work is good enough, because it's a churning procedure as the project goes...and it could back fire if the client does not agree with the results in the end.

- All the work above plus proposal works - if you want to look good to get promoted.

- All colleagues in the group are working like describe above, you won't be comfortable for long if you are in a project that is well managed.  Since there are lack of people doing the work, you might get pulled in to do more work for other senior manager or projects.

- Avoid working for ITAS Compliance Solution Enablement if you work for EY.  Other EY groups are not like the ones described above.

- The pay scale does not do justice if you look at the industry pay vs. EY pay plus the amount of effort and work involve. The more hours EY push you to do, the more the company gain for their chargebility, but zero bonus to your salary.  The industry pays you more bonus $20k annually, with mininal effort, and EY pays you $1k for quadriple efforts.

- Most employess are burned out and in a bad mood, they are great people trapped in a bad work ethics.

- The group specialized in hiring military recruits, the inexperience who can put in super long hours day and night for chargebility.