Company: EY
Date: 2016-06-13
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Manager
Pros: Competitive Pay, smart people, good experience. Demanding work and competitive environment.
Cons: Cut throat leadership, vindictive and petty management. Excessive and demanding leadership, little investment in training or development.  Constantly changing teams and inexperienced leaders.  I had good ratings for 5 years, at the end of my fifth year I suddenly found myself rated as below expectations.  Everything prior was met or exceeded expectations.  Granted for a few months I may have been distracted, but my wife's cancer was not deemed to be an adequate reason.  While at the hospital after her surgery I was asked to be in Ohio in two days which I then did and continued to travel during her chemotherapy, although I was able to schedule it on Friday's and attend most of them over a three month period.  I was terminated while she was still undergoing chemotherapy.  When I mentioned that none of my previous ratings had been less that “met or exceeded expectations” and the sudden shift to “failed to meet expectations” was sudden and not documented the HR VP told me it did not matter.  I would have liked to have had more time to contest that, but the review was actually written after I was terminated.  Calls to former Senior Managers and colleagues were all unanswered and not returned.  At least they were loyal to each other.