Company: EY
Date: 2016-09-22
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Parents, be careful!
Pros: salary, time off (only if you are allowed to take it w/o being looked down on)
Cons: Flexibility promised to working parents was not as promised. Recruiter lied in answer to multiple questions on this topic. Please speak to the hiring manager directly about these concerns before accepting a position (if they let you; they didn't let me talk to mine about this when I asked -- should have been big red flag). They say you have unlimited sick days for your children (you get zero days for this), flexible hours day-to-day (lie), lots of vacation time (but they get incensed when you ask to take it), work from home (but not if the boss says no). They actually have an HR brochure that suggests you take your sick kids with a fever to their backup daycare (rather than to a doctor or letting them rest at home) so you can work! My coworker (divorced mom of young kids) was forced to take on a lot of out-of-state travel for no extra pay and told to "get a nanny." When I tried to take advantage of the flexibility promised, I became a pariah to my boss. Life was hell. When I complained and asked for a transfer, EY claimed I had resigned, despite my insistence that I hadn't.  I was (in the words of the unemployment office making the determination) "discharged without just cause." I never even had one performance review. So parents and anyone else looking for flexibility, be careful and know that the recruiters will lie like a used car salesman just to close the deal. And you will be considered expendable if work is not your #1 priority in life.