Company: EY
Date: 2020-07-31
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

One of the worst in work life balance & hierarchy
Pros: 1. Lots of leaves
2. You are supposed to work 9 hours a day and they will give extra 5 days leave annually
3. Work from home can be taken at will, depends on your manager & counsellor. And only if you are a senior . If you are staff then See Cons section
4. Have heard that the tax and audit teams are better than the Advisory teams. Especially DnA(Data and analytics)

The below review is only for DnA team , But some of them might apply to other teams as well.
Cons: This would take a while, and are only my views of the company, might not be necessarily true for other teams.

1. I would not recommend for anyone to join here in a junior position, believe me you will hate your decision. That is don't join here below Senior level. If you are staff the higher management & the experienced people see you as a slave to do their work. 
2. Most of the people are hired from other service companies and they have brought their bullying culture along with them although there are few exceptions ,they alone can't change anything.
3. You are totally dependent on your senior managers ( you might be mapped to more than one ) to get release from a project. I was not released from the project because I did well even though I have been asking for more than a year( after initial development you are supposed to do support work also, why , because the us team asked to do so, that's it , and the team here is totally dependent on them. )
4. Dont join the data and analytics team people are not so welcoming and projects are very mediocre on ETL & Big data. Not sure about AI but since the DnA team is totally dependent on US to get business's I am assuming it will be the same as well.
5. Staffs are not treated as humans, whether you are sick or pregnant(I have heard it first hand from multiple people, there can be exceptions is you are everyone's favourite) or new to the technology it doesn't matter, the managers want to save themselves from working , so they will pressurize you. And you are pressured to contribute to org activities , which also includes the work of HR like handling recruitment drives and arranging interviews( slap on the face)
6. The managers don't do any coding, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Of course there are exceptions , but most of the time you will be on your own to debug issues, as usual managers will tell you to try different approaches , which any person with little common sense can think of, you don't need their help.
7. Favouritism all the way, be it any location in India, you might not know if new projects are coming since the favorites will already be assigned to those & also promoted faster. 
8. Projects are entirely dependent on EY US , the gds team cannot engage in any projects directly without going through the region entity. And all the people I have met from EY US are ignorant in technology. So you can expect a lot of micromanagement from them, don't know how they find such people and there is not one person you can talk to at a technical level.
9. No benefits apart from salary, they might give you tshirts and other cups if you are into that sort of thing
10. Hike process is not transparent, EY will find new ways to tell you that you are not doing enough.