Company: EY
Date: 2017-06-15
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Assistant Director
Pros: Global opportunities, work from home, solid benefits
Cons: Very little flexibility regarding work style - conformity is desired, especially when working with the Advisory function. In that case, partners have too much power over how and when employees on a project work, in many cases leading to a toxic work environment. Individual styles are not appreciated. Support functions like Communications who work with Advisory completely bend to the whims of those lead partners and rather than seek to find a compromise where their own employees are provided with support and solutions so that they can work comfortably, will sacrifice you in the name of the project, even if that project is dysfunctional and has a bad reputation within the company. Lots of employee churn within Advisory projects. You will be worked to death with very little reward or job satisfaction. As with other Big 4 firms, EY's support functions (Communications, Marketing, etc.) are second class to those functions that directly generate revenue.