Company: EY
Date: 2020-09-01
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Typical Big 4 BS
Pros: Exposure to some of the highest profile engagements in the world within a sector. Working on some truly innovative projects is a great opportunity to learn and develop as well as work with some of the brightest Consulting has to offer.

At a local level, focus on employee wellbeing is good, but there really isn't much in place to support real change when its needed. This means that anyone with a significant mental health issue just has to take time off to recover. nothing fundamentally changes with respect to how work is delivered.
Cons: Unfortunately, the good engagements are relatively few and far between. And even the best engagements are punctuated by the typical Big 4 nonsense that we all hate. This includes necessary, non-value-adding project management by incompetent Senior Managers and their teams to produce "update slides" for the client to cover the fact that they possess nothing of note to say in client discussions.

Pay and bonuses are a joke -from Sept 2013 to 2021, my pay will have increased 2.27% (nominal) CAGR, including a promotion from Senior Consultant to Manager. Only way to get pay rises is to compete for promotions with people who are better at playing the politics than they are at understanding and delivering their work and providing value to clients.

Resourcing is a joke - there is zero attempt to understand skillsets of individuals, assuming that everyone is homogeneous.

Admin is pathetic - the HR function is incompetent and unable to do anything without constant haranguing. The Talent team doesn't grasp the Firm's own HR policies, so tries to enact measures that are contrary to them. When challenged, they push back and eventually may escalate, at which point radio silence ensues.