Company: EY
Date: 2018-07-29
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Consulting is a lifestyle not a career
Pros: Excellent pay, most of the work we do is interesting, the teams are usually great, the leadership is supportive, the path upward is clear and attainable, there is a lot of pride in saying you work for EY, paternity/maternity leave of 16 weeks, and you’re generally treated like a high value asset by the company, for the most part your work schedule is pretty flexible once you are a manager and up.
Cons: Lots of travel! You are either ok with this or you’re not, it can get brutal at times and be frustrating. The rating process can be a bit opaque for salary increases. The firm is not the best with internal technology, share points are difficult to get, no use of native email apps on phones, the audit mindset still has a hold on them, where they don’t see the value in enabling us to share information easily internally and leverage past deliverables because they are scared of the liability of recording the work they have done(this is improving as advisory takes a bigger role and a heavier focus is being placed on the value of intellectual property).  Some partners are obsessed with utilization to the point that it damages the sales pipeline and ability to really grow the firm and take on internal initiatives.