Company: EY
Date: 2021-01-15
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Awful Work Environment - Good Name for CV - Adelaide Street Office
Pros: -Payday drinks on the last Friday of every month, social committee were amazing
-Good Christmas parties
-Good name to have on your CV
-Modern offices
-Some travel if that's what you want
-Casual dress
-Good training opportunities if you know where to look
Cons: -Terrible management, 'rules for thee but not for me' type, bullying and harassment went ignored by managers as they were friends
-Promotions more dependent on if the managers liked you the most rather than your performance
-Blatant office politics and favoritism towards some members of staff by management
-The Adelaide office is an offshore delivery centre, meaning all work that the main UK business doesn't want to do is sent here, can be extremely tedious and monotonous with very little skill development
-Managers will bully people out and encourage them to leave, never experienced something so unprofessional in my entire life
-The firm claims to be 'mental health champions' and that you can always reach out, the reality is management couldn't care less
-Extremely low pay. By far the lowest in Belfast for similar work, multiple offers were turned down by candidates due to this, would recommend checking the salaries section in glassdoor for EY Belfast
-Management couldn't care less about alarming retention rate, 15 people left in 8 months out of a team of around 40 yet don't take action or address it 
-Flexi-working is advertised and was mentioned at interview several years ago but some managers would not let you work from home or operate on a more flexible schedule under any circumstances, this has now changed to some flexi-working being available after working there for 6 months (though obviously this has changed during covid-19)
-Some managers are absolutely useless and are very unorganized and very unprofessional
-Office can be quite clique

In short, EY Adelaide Belfast Office should be avoided, or left as quickly as possible