Company: EY
Date: 2015-11-03
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Gives quite a lot as an organisation but takes a lot more!
Pros: Quite a friendly culture, Reasonably good generic training. Often has very good exposure to prestigious high profile transactions and companies.
Cons: Progression to next level is not always clear, quite arbitrary/changing criteria to get promoted, too much workload on many people with few checks on overworking. The pay and compensation below Partner level is not worth the hours in most cases eg 70-90 hours per week not atypical, for people who could easily earn 30-50% premium in industry or banking.

Specialist training in Industrial areas such as Financial Services, Energy is fairly poor and so often left to the individual to further knowledge.

There is too much push and not enough pull, what I mean by this, is that EY does not explain or articulate well to employees why they should stay and why they are better staying at EY, instead you have to explain why you are the best and they should want you.

Lacks entrepreneurial culture, they promote a risk adverse culture, this is somewhat understandable, however it limits their growth.

There are very few really exceptionally talented people stay here very long, so they don't have the talent one might find at a decent investment Bank.

US side of the firm generally employs quite varying standards of people, seems to be little uniformity in quality of US staff.

Some partners do not live by high ethical/moral standards.

Quite a lot of internal competition between different service lines.

Many global disputes on fees etc behind the scenes.