Company: EY
Date: 2020-06-25
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

EY Tax Services
Pros: I've worked for EY for years. I found it to be a good environment when starting your tax career, as you are required to split your time among at least 4 tax service lines.
Cons: I don't believe many of the tax service lines in Southern CA foster a good environment for work-life balance. Many tax employees find their schedules overloaded while their peers have light work schedules. The Southern California offices in particular have difficultly fostering a culture of teaming, as its leaders do not actively participate in ensuring staff resources are properly distributed and do not check in with staff to ensure management is properly training them. Furthermore, due to the lack of tax leadership, there is a lot of tax service line segregation and in-fighting among groups for resources. EY's tax technology is also far behind many other public accounting firms and many hours are lost due to manual work-paper updating and efficiency/quality is lost due to work-papers not being standardized. Leadership's revenue sharing seems to not incentivize sharing the cost of developing tax technology tools.