Company: EY
Date: 2019-04-09
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Corporate Disappointment
Pros: - Depending on your team/manager, you may be allowed to work from home one day a week after 6 months. 
- Nice modern offices. 
- Pay day drinks last Friday of every month. 
- Social activities like tag rugby, quizzes, away days, volunteer days. 
- Relaxed work environment, a lot of the time you won't have any pressing work to be doing. 
- Opportunity for yearly promotion and pay increase. 
- If you like peace and quiet the office can be like a library at times. 
- Potential for travel depending on what engagement you get placed on. UK & Ireland travel. 
- Plenty of self training courses available to take for free through EY's link with Udemy.
Cons: - Starting salary is bad, much worse than local competitors. EY Belfast in particular are paid much lower than other EY offices. 
- EY Belfast is seen as a place for other EY offices to hand their unwanted work off to, meaning projects can be boring at times. 
- They may tell you they operate under "flexi-time" or flexible working in interview, however 90% of the time this isn't true. Its working 9-5 minimum with no overtime pay and no time in lieu.
- Promotion very much depends on if your manager/ senior likes you personally. If you're not willing to work for free by staying for overtime when asked, you will get bad feedback, you wont be in line for promotions. 
- Very hierarchical outlook, there is a distinct pecking order in the office. The office can be seen as being very clique. 
- When you arrive you will be subjected to "on-board training", which consists of watching web seminars  for a week. With little to no interaction from management.  In my opinion bad start to life at EY.