Company: EY
Date: 2013-09-25
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

All that glitters is not gold
Pros: Zero probation.  You do not have to serve a probationary period.  This does not mean that you will not get stabled in the back if you are not watching.
Cons: Here is where the company excel....
Contract is not worth the paper it's written on, e.g. Contract says 35hrs per week for most UK non-regional staffs but to avoid open victimisation you work average 6o hours a week (even on admin, non chargeable work)
The utilisation target is high at 95% for managers and senior consultants.  This is impossible to achievable because most senior mangers prevent you from recording/charging all your hours - the excuse is often issued around commercials like margin and sell-ons
Few people selling (usually only partners, executive directors and some ruthless cut-throat  directors) and or allowed to take credit for sales
Promotion is rare, salary review is worthless (when it is communicated often the starting point is always how the firm has not reached its target this year or how your feedback and rating was not good enough, or your salary is already too high for your band), efforts are not rewarded in pay package at least not on equal measures.
If you are not building the right internal network, I.e with the influential minority then you are not going any where.
Bias, discriminatory, cut throat culture under pinned by brand protection culture
Exhausting, ice age internal processes that hinders individual performance
Unconventional guidelines / directions on projects - could include direct instruction to facilitate someone the managements don't like getting managed out
Knowledge sharing is basically borderline plagiarism however a skill you are expected to perfect.
Learning and development is encouraged when it is free and as long as you don't actually learn anything you can use
Did I mention, you are just another bum on a sit - you are not valued for your skill or talent or even specialism only for your ability to keep your bum on a sit camped at clients expense for a very long time.
Don't forget to join the firm if you want to loose or your self worth, value, core principles.