Company: EY
Date: 2014-02-11
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

FSO-Taylorist sweatshop - a body shop  temp-staffing agency
Pros: brand name
* no real other pros*
*they do pay a measely relocation bonus, but not nearly enough*
*nickel and dime people on legitimate expenses*
Cons: * long hours, lack of flexibility for people wanting to have a healthy sleeping, eating and excercise schedule
* petty, hypocritical,  greedy, narcissist and egotistical partners
* very poor health care options
* lack of specialization and skill development opportunities for junior staff
* rewarding of supplicant yes-monkey lackeys full of mediocrity, rampant favoritism
* abdication of critical thinking in favor of rubber-stamp, box-checking mentality 
* not a place where top performers are rewarded based on merit
* dificult lateral movement
* haphazard and inconsistent mentoring, basically just so taht the mentor can collect his bonus
* worthless in-house training sessions done for collecting checkmarks, not learning
* too many direct admit partners and partners who do not share original EY culure
* race to the bottom, instead of the top,- EY competes with temp-staffing agencies for contracts resulting in massive staff augmentation projects, where the EY staff is loaned to the client to do the work that the client cant do / bc the client fired their own staff
* EY should be trying to compete with the likes of Bain in the fields of consulting. instead of Robert Half and Labour Ready
* at least in a Temp Agency you get a choice of which city and which company you accept to work at,  get paid time and a half overtime, and are not required to do unpaid extracurricular activities
*in Uncle Ernie's sweatshop, you could be living in Manhattan, and get staffed in a back-office of some scandal-ridden, troubled bank that you dont' want to have on your resume as a client working in some podunk town in the deep woods of New Jersey...get paid for only                40 hours a week, when you are working 70 hours
* MY ADVICE- you're better off taking an entry level compliance analyst job at a big bank or working for a temp agency that staffs big banks with a much better quality of life and work-life balance, less insanity and less backstabbing. you are not going to find many opportunities other than compliance consuting at EY.