Company: EY
Date: 2014-08-07
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Don't do Audit
Pros: They pay for your qualification and you get to put the EY name on your CV. Those are the two single reasons 80% of people join and then subsequently leave EY (in audit anyway)
Cons: Long hours
Training is 'on the job' ie get thrown in and see how you do. Which is good in some respects, but bad in situations where your seniors are incompetent / absent. Situations like this are often spun as an opportunity to 'step up'
Senior Managers and Partners seem to have worked in audit for so long that they've lost a chunk of their soul (again, I think this applies more to audit, other departments' personnel seem to have a bit more character)
Pay has been frozen the last few years (no increases for inflation) and no bonuses since I've been at the firm