Company: EY
Date: 2014-09-07
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

"Training Firm"
Pros: Great training in the sense that you are thrown in the deep end and given significant responsibility within 3-6 months in the office. Great culture of coaching junior staff and generally management are exceptionally patient and empathic that junior staff are being given alot of responsibility.
Cons: Usual issues with Big 4 accounting firms - overworked and underpaid.
Overbooked on jobs coming up to study leave when rival firms leave their "trainees" unbooked thereby giving them a greater opportunity of passing.
Inflated sense of exit opportunities once qualified. Many qualified seniors emigrated, are in contract roles, or are in fund accounting roles not requiring a CA.
Expect to take a pay cut in relative terms if you are moving abroad with the firm