Company: EY
Date: 2014-02-13
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Great place to start your career but hard to justify staying after a few years unless you truly want to be Partner
Pros: -Great learning experience and resume builder
-Get to work with very intelligent professionals, all relatively young in age
-Interact with high level employees at clients
-Definitely the best of the Big 4 if you want public accounting experience
-Decent benefits and vacation, sick days, personal days, etc.
-PENSION
-401k
Cons: -Horrible hours, Little to no work life balance, despite how much flexibility is preached
-After intern/staff years the compensation is very disappointing and well below the hours worked. Hard to justify not leaving for job in private offering much more money for less hours unless you truly want to make partner in audit. 
-Not convinced all the hard work truly pays off in terms of opportunities outside the firm like they will have you believe (ie. "Stay until Manager and incredible doors open for you")
-Huge variability based on specific jobs you have no control over- Some teams work 15 hour days, 6 days a week for months while others work 10 hour days for 5 days a week etc.
-Review and rating process is a joke
-Outdated technology and resources
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