Company: EY
Date: 2020-05-15
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Great culture and opportunities for growth; peer talent can vary; federated regional model needs to change
Pros: - Great culture: coaching, leadership mentorship, opportunities from early on are great
- Compensation is adequate
- Scale and systems that come with a global company
- I find that people are generally "nice" compared to some peers
- If you are a star, you will get lots of opportunities to shine and have access to client and internal leadership in doing so
Cons: - As with all large consulting orgs, your experience varies based on group and partner / leadership; stress levels can be high (FS advisory)
 - Most teams are not generalist and by the time you are a senior (in advisory at least) are expected to focus
 - Could be pro or con: your ability to get staffed on sexy projects is very dependent on your networking ability (but also on your performance)
 - It is almost impossible to be fired at EY until the Senior Manager level, which leads to some sub-par teammates. With that being said, most poor performers self-select out
- Federated model of each region serving as its own entity makes cross-region collaboration difficult and bureaucratic, and impedes cross-region transfers. I was offered a transfer to London from US and would have had to quit my EY job then be re-hired in London. Felt strange.
- Very limited early promotions - tend to follow a tenure-based scale (at least as a threshold) which is not ideal if you're a top performer