Company: EY
Date: 2015-04-09
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Some great people and opportunities, but don't stay if you're not on the Partner track
Pros: Some great colleagues and team spirit and good opportunities and projects. If you create the right network you can move around (functionally or geographically) within certain limits.

If you're at the start of your career and in a profession with formal training (accounting, actuarial, not so much generalist areas) then EY or a firm like it is a fantastic place to get experience, complete your training and grow your reputation and network
Cons: Some functions have VERY long working hours, to the extent that it's not possible to be successful AND have some kind of a life whether that's family or hobbies.

Partnership is lucrative and rewarding (by all accounts) but the path to there is gruelling and extremely political. In fact, highly developed and aggressive political skills seem to be a requirement of entry.

If you're going to do well here, you need to devote every shred of your existence to the firm.

So it's great that the firm is strongly pushing the diversity agenda but the truth remains that the life consuming culture of the firm will create an environment that has a certain type of personality within it. Is that diversity?