Company: EY
Date: 2015-02-03
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

EY - My bad experience
Pros: Brand opens doors to other opportunities
Cons: 1)  Very bad pay:
 I was hired as an industrial Engineer for EY through an acquisition. My base pay was 30% below market related. 
2) Performance scheme is a fraud
I had received 5 rating for the  three years at EY and I have never seen a bonus and I was the most underpaid senior associate in the firm. This did not make sense to me. Basically you are asking your top performers to leave!! 
3) Poor administrative procedures
When I first joined I spent one week with out a laptop and three weeks without internet connection despite all efforts of getting this resolved with IT.
4) It all about numbers
Not once has the firm put its employees first. When I left the firm I had an outstanding study loan. I had asked the firm the day I resigned for the invoice so that this can be issued to my new employer for settlement. On my second last day I was told to sign an AOD (acknowledgement of debt), which stated that the amount is payable end of the upcoming month. I was glad that it had finally been sorted. That evening to my surprise I received only 5% of my termination pay (this was nothing). I submitted yet another query. I had been notified by the HR manager that the amount was incorrectly deducted. There after I had received an email from payroll stating that all loans need to be paid out before the employee leaves the firm - Recap: No invoice was issued after a countless number of request, the AOD issued by payroll stated the amount to paid end of the following month.  So now they demand that my new employer pays before they can revert this so called "mistake". I believe that this was purposely done. No consideration of how their actions can affect their employees. I am now a week behind my rent. 
5) Everything was a promise
They will always get you excited about some upcoming project or overseas training. When the date arrives there is always a new story. This is just a scam to have you stick around a while longer while they leverage off your billing rate that is 100% more than hourly rate. 

If it wasn't for my circumstance I would have left the firm the day that I joined!!!!