Company: EY
Date: 2018-05-17
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Mind numbing, hierarchical, discriminatory, women adverse hell
Pros: Good name to have on CV - after a year or so, very easy to find a decent company to work for
Nice office - the More London Place office is quite grand, very spacious
Good coffee on the ground floor cafe
Catchy set of values and slogan ("Build a better working world")
Many people are actually very nice to interact with
Cons: Partners: no positive leadership model, no compassion or respect for people's personal circumstances. very self-involved group, generally obnoxious. 

Very laddy culture - despite this, there is also a lot of positive discrimination in the promotion rounds, particularly to Director and Partner level - if you are a woman and manage to make a couple of parterns not feel threatened by you, you can get promoted quite quickly.

Toxic culture amongst consulting and supporting staff: no integrity, respect or teaming from most people who've been in the company longer than a couple of years. 

Resourcing leadership - poisonous, psycopathic, no understanding of what the team actually do and with vitually no common sense - consistently throws the team under the bus despite them doing what they are told to do; during promotion rounds, holds back a range of very bright individuals who were/are sadly wasting their time and potential at EY. The one responsible for my team instead was severely unqualified for the role  and is constantly being snubbed/badmouthed by the partners and Ops Directors- no management skills, aggressively defensive behavior in interactions with staff, delusions of grandeur with regards to own skills and knowledge, discriminatory behavior with no HR oversight - in my first year there alone there was about a 75% turnover in my team.

Ops Directors  - generally qualified and quite good at running the teams. The one in my team though was constantly making disparaging comments on the consulting staff and the Resourcing Leadership as well as commenting on people's mental health and telling consulting counselors to manage out "problematic staff" - generally anyone who didn't spend their time brown nosing.