Company: EY
Date: 2018-06-18
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Internal Employee (non-consulting)
Pros: - Great benefits (401(k), health, vacation, maternity/paternity leave, employee assistance programs)
- Commitment to training (although, I do think that because training takes place on such a large scale, it's difficult to create individualized paths or tailor courses)
- Strong understanding of the brand and image, and commitment to maintaining that. This leads to a lot of resources both for internal and client-facing employees to pull from - templates, past work examples, etc. - never recreating the wheel
- They understand that their rating and subsequent feedback system needs improvement, and have been working to enhance it.
Cons: - The firm is very bureaucratic in all decision making. Every decision goes through multiple levels of approval; this goes far in maintaining the brand of the firm (and I think is primarily a product of the size of the firm), but prevents innovation and creativity in many situations. 
- An observation: The lifestyle for consultants, particularly for auditors, leaves much to be desired. This is the case at all Big 4 (and surely many regional firms), but it's something that should be looked into by EY and its competitors. Auditors work significantly more hours than business consultants, but are not compensated as highly. 
- Work/life balance: There is a top-down sense of respect for family life, but that is not echoed by actual teams' actions. Balance seems to be more of something that is said, rather than acted on and implemented.