Company: EY
Date: 2021-01-31
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

You can do better, look for better jobs!
Pros: - Some people are very helpful, depends on the people, honestly.
- The name of a Big4 company on your resume. 
- Flexible work hours, depends on the onshore team's timing. But also, they expect you to log in early either way, even though it isn't necessary.
- Don't expect to learn much about your job (audit) but you can learn more about Excel if you're not proficient in it.
- You have the option to pursue ACCA or CPA, sponsored by the company.
- You have the option of visiting the onshore offices if you are a senior, which you become after 3 years and only if you're that exceptional.
Cons: - Not compensated enough for the work you do.
- You get a terrible laptop that's been used by someone else and had not been sanitised. My problem was not that it was used by someone, it was that it was dirty.
- Extremely long hours; have worked from 10 a.m. - 5:30 a.m. the next day for multiple weeks with an hour or 2 in total for eating.
- Distribution of work is uneven; 50% of the people will be working 50 hours a week and the other half will work 20 hours, but everyone gets paid the same. It seems unfair. 
- HR is unsupportive, they will say "yes we hear your concerns, totally understand" for everything you say, regardless of what you say. 
- During Busy Season, you are expected to work anywhere between 65-110 hours (essentially 13-and you aren't paid overtime. But during that period (Jan-April), if you want to work only 45 hours, you will be facing a pay cut. It makes no sense to me.
- For the first 3 years, it is basically the same Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V job. And god forbid you to try to understand what's going on because some seniors just want to get the job done instead of spending time to understand it.
- Your job as a second year will also include training new staff on how to do the work, which is essentially a senior's job.