Company: EY
Date: 2019-04-04
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Great firm to learn corporate world workings
Pros: I loved working at EY, coming from a varied academic and policy-focused background. Stepping into one of the Big 4, in a somewhat different section (Fraud and Dispute Services) for the Middle East from Dubai was eye-opening. I loved: 
- Seeing how a truly global corporate works and the systems operation
- Having the resources for pursuing new things, so long as you have your manager's and partner's support
- Progression is good, if hard work
- Learning curve can be great, especially with the global integration of the company
- Ethical guidelines define what the company does and does not take on/get involved in
Cons: - Regularly getting told about professional training and advancement opportunities, that were usually not financed or supported when the time came by management
- Strongly hierarchical
- Initiative and ability to innovate entirely dependent on the characters in management and partnership of your section
- Money- rather than value-driven in decisionmaking