Company: EY
Date: 2011-01-27
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Losing its people first culture
Pros: 1. Inclusive culture
2. Varied and valuable client experience
3. Good people
4. Hard work is appreciated in bigger offices.
5. Transfers to various office locations are easy
Cons: 1. Pay and benefits are not commensurate with industry standard
2. Work hours are too long
3. You end up working even on vacation
4. Larger offices are good to work for.
5. Lack of informal 360 feedback
6. Client work is most important. They don't care what people wish to do. No formal career guidance
7. The people first tag line is not true and not evident in the firm's culture
8. Bigger offices are nice to work for but effort is not recognized in smaller offices
9. Some managers can be extremely troublesome and you have no option but to live with it and get work done.
10. Audits get repetitive after some time. There are little opportunities that a firm provides for people in audit to do advisory work. As a result lot of my top performing colleagues left the firm.
11. It is very difficult to move departments. If you start on audit engagements, most likely you will be stuck with it for a long time.