Company: EY
Date: 2013-08-13
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Terrible experience, Partners incompetent
Pros: EY generates a strong brand within financial services that can be leveraged for other, better pursuits.  Also the firm does provide good benefits (at the Manager+ levels)
Cons: Working at EY was pretty much a waste of time.  To be clear, I worked in the Capital Advisory group at EY (broker/dealer).  In sum, the Partners within the Practice basically could not sell work, many of which focused more on their golf skills on the course than teeing up deals to sell for the Associates.  Also, the associates mix in technical skill sets varied, indicating that EY does not rigorously weed out bad talent.  The biggest problem with the firm is senior management, where the competent/incompetent Partners stand at a ratio of 10/90.  The firm, at least my group, further was very non-collegial and there was a lot of backstabbing/throwing colleagues under the bus just to impress the Partners; far more brown nosing than true competence.  Glad I left!