Company: EY
Date: 2016-06-21
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Best people culture marred only by lack of strategy & few sour apples up top
Pros: First thing to note is that EY is a company for people who care. Most people are extremely nice and helpful. EY has hands down the best people culture among Big 4 and firm tries hard to promote inclusiveness. 
You get to work with bright people (in general), and leadership actually cares about the employees - SrMgrs/Partners make time just to talk to you about your career interests and current projects. Firm's advisory practice is growing, so despite the growing pains (see below), its future is bright. Knowledge capability was very muddled but firm actively working to rectify that and I've seen progress. Robust training curriculum though not perfect, and good volunteer opportunities to give back to the community.
Cons: Lack of well-defined growth strategy/subpar onboarding (a joke really)/lower winrate all cause frequent and extended time on the bench doing bunch of proposal work that we often lose, and firm doesn't have the clout of some of the competitors to "plow through" to the deal. In the end, contrary to saying, utilization is all that matters in performance reviews and consultants pay the price for what's not in their control a lot of the times
There are some toxic practice-industry-specific clique around certain individual partners but with changes in hoteling, those "clique watering holes" have been disappearing.
Staffing resources for the most part are just not too helpful - most too laid back to notice your pants are on fire. And when they do recommend you, they seem very haphazard.