Company: EY
Date: 2020-01-08
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Not worth the hours or stress for the qualification.
Pros: Looks good on your CV for moving into industry
Cons: Work life balance is horrendous. Working hours are 9-5 (per contract) but the pressure put on you forces you to stay in the office much much longer. During busy season, very common to spend weeks working past midnight, as well as multiple weekends- of which there is no overtime or TOIL. 

There is a big staff retention issue in audit, and always resourcing issues, which causes significant stress being the senior on the engagement with limited staff.  This caused a massive strain on my mental health, with the worst part being I felt there was no-one at the company I could talk to about it. 

Always travelling out of London for clients, with no real base to get to know people as always moving around teams. 

The pay is significantly below industry, so makes no sense to stay at EY after qualification with much better pay and working hours out of EY. 

There are arbitrary deadlines all of the time to put stress on you.