Company: EY
Date: 2018-04-30
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Good learning school and CV boost, but otherwise not worth the effort.
Pros: - you learn a a lot of things in a relatively short amount of time
- experienced, friendly coworkers (both within and outside of EY)
- very good way to build one's network
- working for a Big-4  is an asset for one's CV
Cons: - besides conventional targets like revenue and utilization, there no real management strategy.
- the only 2 ways to progress to higher ranks are either by selling or by managing projects.
- the business model provides little incentive to build expertise internally, since this conflicts with the targets.
- progression and promotion do not depend on honest, fair evaluations. decisions are taken beforehand and evaluations are skewed to match the outcome.
- if you're not visible enough or if management doesn't like you, you can forget about career progression.
- traffic jams around Brussels have an enormous impact on work-life balance