Company: EY
Date: 2014-04-23
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

EY Consulting Group
Pros: There are very few pros in my opinion, other than you become far more marketable after working at a big 4
Cons: Overall I thought that the consulting group was somewhat of a joke. The work was all administrative work, or busy work, stuff like formatting a document, doing some very basic research, writing copy for a powerpoint. But what really amazed me was the amount of analysis and time that went into doing these basic things. Formerly I worked in an investment bank as an analyst and thought that consulting would be an interesting opportunity to learn operations. I was very wrong. The sang at EY is that if you pay us enough, we will literally do anything, and we did. We had teams, like 30, people who's sole task was to run spellcheck and format a 1500 page document for a major bank. This went on for 2 months. I remember one night that was spent creating 250 flow charts of random processes for a call center, that were never looked at. Hours, upon hours of note taking from pointless meetings.