Company: EY
Date: 2021-03-24
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

As Expected: Career Catapult at the Cost of Personal Happiness
Pros: - Employees are given opportunities to see a lot of things in a short period and you are taught to think critically and dynamically, skills that will help you in your career later down the road
- Other employers value your time in the consulting world and this time helps catapult your career
- You quickly see how a big organization works so the childish "your company has your best interest in mind" mindset fades away fast to the reality of the real business world (might as well rip that one off as quick as possible) 
- Most people you work with actually share the values that EY promotes in the marketplace (less so at the executive level and more-so at the staff-manager level)
Cons: Consistently staffed on difficult projects (difficult due to dysfunctional clients, internal unnecessary EY politics, mundane projects sold with unnecessarily short timelines)
- Regardless of messaging, the firm cares about your work output, hard stop. While they promote "work/life" balance, this balance will get in the way of you progressing through the firm and obtaining pay increases you feel you deserve.
- Constantly in a "compare yourself to the strongest performer" culture promotes a reality that if you are not all things to all people, there will be reasons to keep you from going where you want to go