Company: EY
Date: 2018-04-21
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Can be a great experience if you you're lucky
Pros: EY has great benefits, including 3-4 month parental leave and a slew of flex type benefits (fitness, adoption, etc.) Your experience at EY will be shaped by the team, service line, and office you work with. I've lucked out and got placed in a great team day one and have been with them ever since. I've worked with plenty of people who worked in other teams or offices that were treated very poorly at work.
Cons: Promotions are less merit based after senior level. It becomes a very loose and hard to define process. The firm sometimes makes poor decisions at the top when it comes to investments. Often times, it can feel like the people doing all the "regular work" are just keeping the lights on so firm leaders can spend money on acquisitions.

At higher levels, the partnership and all the politics involved in it can sometimes be distracting from the actual work we do for our clients.