Company: EY
Date: 2020-05-22
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

EY Jacksonville is a joke
Pros: Decent sick/vacation time
WFH sometimes 
Ability to get OT
Cons: Like many people you may find yourself ready to graduate, when out of nowhere you see an email from EY recruiting. Here you are sold the idea of working for a Big 4 professional services firm. You may think of typical consulting with all the perks and benefits, loads of travel, great career opportunities, and excellent leadership and development. The SDC in Jacksonville is none of that. The SDC was brought to life by EY in an effort to reduce costs and to have an onshore operations center, this, of course, happens at the expense of recent college grads hooked on the name brand that is EY. If the subpar starting salary wasn't enough to convince you, the nature of the work you will be performing should be your next concern. Basically all the work that cannot be conducted overseas in India will be passed along to you, of course the other analysts and senior analysts in actual consulting positions will throw work you way too if they deem it is too remedial or boring for them to complete. From updating margins on powerpoints, to servicing SharePoint access requests and copy and pasting for hours, surely won't ever get bored ! How can EY operate a "tax" department where many of their employees haven't seen a tax form or learned about tax laws?

 If you want your business degree to feel like a waste of time then, by all means, get a job here If you are hoping to find a career with lots of promise, career development, managers that actually are invested in you and work that will develop some actual transferable skills then DO NOT get a job here. Better yet, just send the email to the trash folder because that's where it belongs.

If that wasn't enough, let me close with this. Some employees outside of the SDC in Jax didn't even know that employees there held college degrees. The way you are treated, spoken to, and the caliber of the work surely reflects that what I mentioned above is prevalent in most of the other groups and markets in EY. The management at the SDC itself does not know what they are doing, and most of all do not care about the careers of the people here. No wonder the turnover rate is so high, most people don't last over 1 year. The things I wrote above only scratch the surface of the problems that are existent in this office, but hey at the end of the day you'll get to put Ersnt & Young on your resume.