Company: EY
Date: 2017-03-13
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Modern day Sweatshop.
Pros: There are some very intelligent people working at EY, offices are also modern and provide a good physical environment to work in.  Clients can also be interesting and high profile.
Cons: Complete lack of transparency.  For a company which prides itself on looking after its 'people', it is about as transparent as mud.  Performance review roundtables done in secret, with little input into what is said.  A modern day old boys club, to get far in EY it is not what you know but who you know.  I witnessed on a number of occasions extremely overworked colleagues, (ranging from SC - ED) who were reduced to tears due to their workload and pressure put on them to perform.  Work is often won, with the sole output been a beautiful looking powerpoint (you will leave EY with amazing ppt skills) and tense moments arrive near the end of the project when the client realises what they have spent all their time and money on.  Prepare to be surrounded by huge ego's, and incompetent mid-managers who are still there because of who they know.  Up at 4 on a Monday to spend the week at a client, home by 9pm on a Friday if you're lucky.  Work life balance is perfect, if work is your life - if not then EY will ruin your social life and strain any relationships you have.   Worst employer of my career.