Company: EY
Date: 2020-09-19
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Great for CV, Bad managerial attitude, worse work-life balance, worst salaries
Pros: 1. Great for your CV to have been in a Big-4 for 5-6 years
2. You get exposed to different industries gaining useful experience that will benefit you in your next job.
3. Extensive internal training and vast amount of resources to study from. Fortunately this is a global attribute and not dependent of local management.
Cons: 1. TOXIC environment. Managers, Senior Managers and their lackeys maintain a disrespectful, arrogant and humiliating behavior towards lower level employees.
2. ZERO WORK-LIFE BALANCE. Constant calls and email outside of working hours that demand immediate response. During the lock-down this behavior became an everyday occurrence.
3. Promotions and raises are handed to friends and lackeys of senior managers. You cannot gain anything unless you become someone's personal dog.
4. Lack of organizational and managerial skills from senior managers. No clear plan of what needs to be done and until when, resulting in audit teams changing constantly. They give you 1 assistant the first week and a different 1 the next. This results in lack of coordination, lack of ownership for the work done and sometimes complaints from clients.
5. WORST SALARIES among the profession. It is embarrassing that even smaller audit firms give higher salaries.