Company: EY
Date: 2012-02-18
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Good place to start career if you know what you want to be doing, very tiring and stressful though.
Pros: It is a great name on your resume, finding a new job aftterwards is somewhat easy. There is a lot of training available, the trick is getting time off of your always-busy schedule to attend it. They have a defined benefit pension. Busy season perks (snack carts, happy  hours, etc). I think they try to be people-friendly as they say, but still fall short on the expectations of younger generations.
Cons: Difficult to move into new departments within the firm and change the direction of your career. Heard that transfers to other locations are similarly difficult. The long hours, of course. The relatively low pay for those long hours (although I have heard other cities are not as bad pay-wise as cost of living is not so high as NYC). Perhaps the worst is that something about the review process ends up promoting and rewarding the wrong people - a lot of really mediocre people in senior and manager roles.