Company: EY
Date: 2009-12-26
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former

Great people and learning opportunities, but long hours.
Pros: Great learning experience.  You have exposure to different clients in various industries until you decide to focus on one industry when promoted to senior auditor. Set promotion pattern is usually guaranteed for most employees meeting expectations.  Senior auditor in two years, manager three years after, senior manager in three years.
Cons: Very poor work/life balance.  You pretty much work all the time.  The higher you advance the more time you spend working.  
The experience is not worth as much as it used to be.  After the layoffs there are tons of former Big 4 people out there.  Pure audit background is great if you want a position in internal audit or as a controller, but difficult to transfer into any other area.