Company: EY
Date: 2015-06-04
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

If you're after a challenge, you'll get it
Pros: * Amazing working environment, whether coming straight out of university or joining as a working professional - people are bright, friendly, cooperative; you get thrown into the deep end but there is excellent support and on-the-job coaching, 
* Relatively easy to move across service lines/departments and across geographic locations via transparent transfer programs although you obviously have to serve a reasonable amount of time in the role you applied for
* Yes, it's a conveyor belt of people coming in (particularly graduates on the assurance side), they get their ACA, and then move on but in return you get strong experience and a high profile name to go on your CV. Also if you remain within the firm, there are always opportunities opening up for you to advance your career
* The business encourages flexible working and it's great option to have; everyone's generally accepting as long as you deliver
Cons: * While the firm funds your qualification which runs into thousands of pounds, on the whole, it's still relatively low pay for the hours you put in, at least until manager or senior manager level
* Audit can be monotonous & boring, hence the high turnover but on the plus side, there are opportunities to move into other service lines within the firm
* There's been a drop in audit quality in the past 5 or so years but that's aggressively being tackled by the firm