Company: EY
Date: 2016-06-22
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Executive in audit at EY London
Pros: a. Large amount of responsibility is given on projects which enables professional development
b. Training opportunities are great
Cons: a. No consideration for personal matters, if there is a client need then there is total disregard for personal circumstances leading to extremely long hours of demotivating work
b. Coaching from managers and above is terrible. Although managers are mostly competent they never have time even for a 2 minute talk which leads to poor quality of work and many staff hiding their mistakes to save face
c. Long hours are usually seen as positive indicator of performance rather than productivity which leads to a lot of people sitting at work staring at their monitors so that they are perceived to be working long hours by the partners
d. Quality of work is sometimes disregarded for closing the job on time. It usually is the case that engagements are sold to the clients at reduced hours to beat the competition and then staff need to suffer the consequences of having to complete a quality audit with extremely low budgeted hours to complete the job, leading to insane number of hours of unpaid and overtime