Company: EY
Date: 2013-07-15
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Ernst & Young Global Talent Hub (EY GTH) is NOT a place for Qualified CAs. It is a Glorified Call Centre.
Pros: 1. Flexibility at the work place
2. Good work culture, management is people centric.
3. The GTH practice is set to grow manifold, revenue is anticipated to grow with increased inflow of hours of work.
4. Management is approachable, but slightly rigid in thoughts.
5. Better work life balance compared to the Indian practice viz. SR Batliboi.
6. We don't work in shifts, like Call Centres!!
Cons: 1. It is a Captive BPO unit, and work done is not pure audit, it is pretty basic, involving simple arithmetic, copy paste on excel, with the exception of handling some advanced excel formulae, which can be done by anyone (such as a smart 12 year old) with minimum common sense, etc.
2. Management claims we're doing "audit", the fact is, it is merely portions of audit, as little judgmental work gets done here, the emphasis being getting more hours of work.
3. Promotion policy needs to revisited, as the promoted seniors are HUGELY DISILLUSIONED group of individuals having extremely poor accounting knowledge, incapable of handling a real time audit.
4. Very poor CPA policy, which has a 2 year bond, upon completion, clearly not employee friendly.
5. CA freshers are hired merely to increase billing revenues, as "COMPLEX" work at GTH, is as common as "Water" on MARS.
6. Management is disillusioned, as most (if not all!!) of the qualified seniors are willing to look for opportunities elsewhere.
7. Compensation is lesser than other competitors, especially the one located in Hyderabad.
8. In this organisation, it pays, if you can "talk", not so, if you're an efficient worker. The former is glorified and awarded, the latter who can't "talk" but is great at work, is ridiculed, and not recognized timely.