Company: EY
Date: 2014-05-10
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

High volume of work. Good for obtaining CPA designation, not a firm to stay for long.
Pros: Good stepping stone onto other jobs and good place to gain industry experience with different client exposures. Good place to get training and obtain your CPA designation.
Cons: No set office, limited office space and therefore sometimes you are left wandering the floors throughout the building for somewhere to sit. Mostly always at the client site. Large workload and expected to work far more than 100% of your "full hours" (40 hours/week during April - Dec; 50 hours/week during Jan - March). Creates conflicting interest for the employees as you want to book your full hours and show you worked a lot, but at the same time you don't want to book too much that you're over your engagement budget. Very frustrating situation. Also, study leaves are never fully paid (only about 1/3 paid). Therefore, first year base salary is only about $30,000, which is never communicated during recruiting.