Company: EY
Date: 2015-01-11
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Learning opportunities, but at a price
Pros: Big 4 firms are the only places where you can really learn how to audit a large public company.
Lots of resources for learning the profession if you have the time, motivation, and opportunity.
Lots of knowledgeable mentors if you're lucky enough to find people who have the skills and interest in teaching.
You get to look inside the financials and operations of some very well managed companies.
Cons: Extreme emphasis on rank and hierarchy--almost like being in the military.
Most mid-level managers are young and have little to no prior experience with managing people, and it shows.
The high turnover causes many people to have short-timer syndrome and put in a "meets expectations" level of effort.
The quality of your experience depends largely on the teams to which you're assigned, which is out of your control.
The hours are long, but that's true throughout the profession.