Company: EY
Date: 2017-02-19
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

HR
Pros: The biggest pro of joining a specialty group is that, as you gain more information in that specific area, you tend to be much more valuable in the market. Since I'm a tax guy, I'll take this from the tax side. Almost everyone has general federal tax expertise, but if you decide to take invest in a specialized area of tax, such as Research and Development, and really run with it, that specialized knowledge can make you very valuable and always have a job within the public accounting world.
Cons: The biggest con to those specialized practices is often it will make you unemployable, or less employable, outside of public accounting. Again, with tax, many big companies need people who have that general fed taxation knowledge, but very, very few need an employee dedicated to Research and Development.