Company: EY
Date: 2020-06-29
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Work-Life balance is a platitude at best
Pros: The work that EY does and the client portfolio they have is pretty good, and the pay and benefits are good, except for the caveats I will list in “Cons”. If you can take the grind, you can get pretty far and it opens a ton of doors when it comes to furthering your career.
Cons: Work-life balance is terrible. I don’t know of any office job where the expected hours per week are 45. Your workload completely rests on how realistic your client’s and managers’ expectations are, which in some cases includes working in the evenings, in unbilled hours “just to make sure the client is happy.” But here is the real reason why I give EY 2 stars. During my time at the firm, my wife had our fist child. EY gives 2 weeks parental leave to the nonprimary caregiver before their 1-year anniversary, but after a year, that becomes 16 weeks, paid.
My child was born, prematurely might I add, at 9pm on the evening before my one-year mark. I reported to work on that day. I put in the hours for a full year’s worth of work, and my kid was born after hours. However, they flat out refused to give me the time off, citing that “there is a precedent.” So I had a kid in the NICU and the company that “looks after their people” did not do squat to give me a little bit of flexibility in terms of giving my wife a break or giving me some appropriate time to bond with my child. 
That was the moment I decided I was leaving the firm, and the moment I became completely disillusioned in the work there. They are just like any other company that slaps these “generous benefits” on their HR sites and hiring materials to make you think they care, but when the time comes to have a human being give you some real help, they just won’t go beyond the agreed-upon minimum. They don’t care about you.