Company: EY
Date: 2015-09-14
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Just a body, no personalized career development
Pros: - Flexible schedule/hours depending on project and manager (I've been lucky so far)
- Vacation plus personal days
- Collect A LOT of reward points from traveling, which is nice when you are able to get free vacations from it
Cons: -	There are training weeks you can attend, but it is hard to get approved for things you are interested in learning. 
-	NO MBA reimbursement like other Big 4 firms. One of the main reasons I am looking to leave. This company puts no money into developing their employees. Only training or education you can get is what they think you should have. Which is not much.
-	The review process is BROKEN. No one understands how they work and it is very unfair and unbalanced, especially when people with different opportunities are compared. 
-	Stop hiring so many people. Do you know how many staff have been on the bench for MONTHS in our local office? This is a waste of time for your employees, who could be out working somewhere else and gaining valuable work experience.
-	Went to school for something specific? Well get ready to never work in the field you have an interest in. EY makes NO attempt to match you up with projects that are within your skill set and interest. I went to school for Finance and that is my interest, yet it has been two years and I have never been put on a Finance project. I like Healthcare, and yet I have NEVER been on a healthcare project. Only Oil & Gas, which I absolutely hate. When you bring it up, they chastise you for requesting specific projects and tell you to be open to other options. Well after a few years of this, people tend to get fed up and quit so they can work on things they have a passion for. If you do whatever EY tells you, you are golden. If you want to control the direction of your career and learn things you are interested in, don’t bother coming here.