Company: EY
Date: 2012-10-04
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Work-life imbalance
Pros: - Worked with some excellent colleagues who were really dedicated to the team, resulting in tight integration so long as everyone in the team contributes
- Logical methodology and workflow, which managers and seniors were willing to explain most of the time
- Great exposure to lots of industries, levels of management internally and also in clients
- Travel opportunities
Cons: - Eternal peak period. Had to work pass midnight almost 70% of my time there. Even the most caring manager is powerless over the usually tight deadlines imposed. 
- Limited manpower means you don't get to choose your leave unless your engagement manager and/or admin officer approves. Some people would book their plane tickets first before applying for leave, forcing the admin officer to give breaks preferentially to them. Because of this, tons of boot-licking and string-pulling.
- Unfair system. Colleagues who leave at 6pm are paid the same as you, who might have to leave at 2am. Working until 2am does not mean you get good ratings from your superiors.
- Off in lieu does not work. Again availability depends on manager and admin officer. Charging overtime depends on job budget, which has to be kept under control by managers since it's part of their performance evaluation. You get the idea...
- No sense of belonging. Continuous feeling of being treated as cannon fodder. Another unknowing soul would be put in your place once you're expended (or you quit)
- All in all, the company is pretty much a slave driver swinging its weight around just because it is one of the "Big 4".