Company: EY
Date: 2014-05-17
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Auditing in the San Jose Office
Pros: Clients - The client base for EY in the San Francisco bay area is unparalleled. You can have great opportunities working on IPOs for internet start-ups or learning complicated hedging from some of the most established companies in the world
Learning Opportunities - They work you hard but you learn a lot, especially early in your career. As you move up the work can get a little more repetitive. But to begin you work with clients and see things that you have no business seeing that early in your career
Exit Opportunities - As long as you are interested in Accounting they are good
Flexibility - You will work a lot, but they work with you so that you can come in and leave whenever
Cons: People - EY hires a lot of talented people, and they hire a lot of bodies. That means if you are lucky enough to get with good people on one of the good teams you will have a great experience and learn a lot. If you get stuck on bad teams with the filler people, well you won't learn much and will burn out quickly.
Career Advancement - You advance fairly quickly but whether you are a super star or the worst member of the team you will advance at the same pace. It causes a lot of the best people to leave early.