Company: EY
Date: 2015-08-08
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Good experience. Young and active environment.
Pros: Changing environment (various clients and teams) keeps in you in fine professional shape. Lots of Us Gaap an PCAOB trainings (5-6 a year and mostly in other cities). Young colleagues. Access to backstages of various well known companies. Promotions and progressions each year if you meet or exceed expectations but this relates to current overal growth in industry-> less internal competition. Family friendly environment!
Cons: Work life balance not ideal: 9am - 7-8p.m. considered normal hours but to be fair that is normal for cpa related jobs, additionally busy season will likely find you working till 10-12 p.m. for roughly a quarter a year.  Overall profession is overregulated by PCAOB so grades before managers suffer from boring tick and tie and templates filling out. Pay is significantly(10-30%) below similar positions in  industry, but what may be expected from non-creative and risk free job.