Company: EY
Date: 2016-06-26
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

EY Assurance Staff 2
Pros: The longer you stay and make less money at EY compared to offers to leave, the better the job opportunities when you leave because of the work experience.  Flexible work schedule, can put your hours in according to you schedule for the most part.  Structured career timeline if you stay, so you know what your future would be if you stayed at EY.  Will hold a lot of leadership positions after just a year or two of starting your career, which may not be an option if you leave and get buried in the back office in private industry.
Cons: Starting salary is low across public accounting for auditors.  Considering that you must take the CPA exam, which now requires 150 credits (more student loans to pay off), it would be nice to see base salaries for staff out of college be a bit higher.  This may be the case in the future, as there will likely be less CPA eligible students coming out of college, due to the increase to 150 credit requirement and the 2017 changes to the exam, which is supposed to make it significantly more difficult.