Company: EY
Date: 2020-10-08
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Great place to start a career, must be willing to play the game
Pros: Structured, large company to learn how to work in the corporate world, you have the potential to be exposed to several industries and technologies. There is a pretty clear path for trajectory if you're willing to put in the legwork and find a competency or service line that you enjoy and/or are good at. Pre-COVID, the travel was the biggest perks of the job with getting to keep your points and use them for personal travel, but who knows what that will look like in the future.
Cons: If you come through the ACP program, they don't really take into account your interest prior to placing you into a competency. That may have changed from 2016 when I started full time, but you will have to jump through an enormous amount of hoops, network aggressively, and have friendly SM or PPEDD sponsors that support your move - which is important to do before being promoted to a senior consultant or you'll be stuck.

While EY is very progressive and one of the most inclusive of the Big 4, there still is gender and racial pay disparity that they are working on improving but is still present. Be ready to be especially proactive in networking and advocating for yourself if you're in a minority population.