Company: EY
Date: 2016-11-30
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Nice people - blind corporate machine with no interest in retention
Pros: Everyone person I worked with was very nice. People were willing to help each other out. Junior partners very approachable and take a keen interest in high performers.
Cons: Executive Summary: The machine is blind and know one knows who's pulling the levers. There is no meaningful systematic attempt to retain talent. Compensation and expense policy falls significantly short of other big four competitors.

Bonuses for TAS are terrible (~3-8% range). There's no internal consistency in pay across tenures and start dates. Some managers are making more than senior managers. Fresh hires one year make more that employees one year in (after annual raises).

The partnership tries to squeeze every penny out employees in the Audit practice where the costs are not pass through and as a consequence there are some very nonsensical policies for TAS: $15/day breakfast, no lunch reimbursement, $50/person limit for CLIENT BD DINNERS, limited use of airplane wifi to name a few.

Additionally, regional leadership at the sub-service line cannot seem to affect meaningful change regarding compensation.

Your development opportunities are driven by your manager / senior manager.  The formal training is highly lacking.