Company: EY
Date: 2020-12-05
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Consulting or Facade Management?
Pros: Good name - EY has a solid pedigree
Good point on one's CV
Cons: Consulting especially in a few teams in EY India (may not be all teams) is all about 'management' and less about honesty. 

Disclaimer: The following points are about a few such teams (including one in which I worked) and may or may not be about all. This is strictly based on my personal experience.

1.  You may be forced to pretend to be experts to clients. Some managers go around flaunting 'exclusive' data to clients which may just be data taken from google or even glassdoor (for e.g. salary figures)

2. Your managers may project you as 'experts' to clients with solid background in a particular industry, while in reality, you may have done just one project in that industry. And you may be forced to maintain that facade.

3. To sell projects to clients, even mundane work in similar organizations may be sold as 'credentials'.

4. Honest people find it difficult  sell their conscience to stay in such teams where one has to nod when your senior is lying through his/ her teeth to the clients about how great their credentials are, and when they promise the moon to clients. 

5. In addition, politics and negative competition. Seniors (Sr. Managers and above) seem to take credit for successes and put the blame on failures on juniors. Plus, most seniors seem to put a lot of workload on the juniors.

6. Some seniors seem to run the business as thier own fiefdoms. So, you either be in their good books, or risk being sidelined.

But yeah, experience in such teams and organizations is required, since you learn a lot on what not to do, and how not to be - and that makes you a better manager and a better human being.