Company: EY
Date: 2018-07-19
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Overall a great place to start your career
Pros: You are given a lot of learning opportunities at EY. You will be given a lot of responsibility early on in your career compared to a lot of other accounting jobs. I enjoyed working with hard-working, smart individuals in a team driven environment that really helped me learn and develop as a professional. Getting Big 4 experience on your resume early in your career is great and will open up so many opportunities. EY also gives employees a good amount of vacation to start and it was encouraged to use it.
Cons: If you want to be a high performer at EY, Work/Life balance is very hard to achieve. The hours are long, even outside of busy season. During busy season, you'll be working 60+ hours a week. Even in the "slow" time of the year, I was generally working more than 40 hours a week - typically closer to 50. A lot of partners/managers place unrealistic deadlines on projects that don't necessarily require aggressive deadlines. Each year, my teams got smaller and smaller just so the "margin" would look better, which resulted in more hours and more burnout. The yearly training sessions are great, but even then you are expected to go back to your hotel to get caught up with all the work you missed while at training.