Company: EY
Date: 2012-08-12
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Depends entirely on luck - which is who is ur direct supervisor / manager.
Pros: Indeed priding itself as the graduate employer of the year for several years now, EY is one of many companies that does provide a wide range of opportunities for graduates. Due to high turnover of staff, the company is always hiring people, particularly fresh graduates. Essentially it is a good starting and stepping stone for any new graduates to start with, but never to stay for too long. More on that in the cons.

Generally accepted fact is that the people working at EY KL are pleasant, patient, and generally nice to work with. Several exceptional managers / directors / partners can make even the most unpleasant job acceptable and even fun. There is often a sense of team spirit and belonging.

There is a tremendous potential for exposure and experience to be gained as well, if you are lucky. Lucky being in the sense that you are posted to the right workable boss and a chance to get into the right jobs.
Cons: Work life balance is virtually non-existant, being nothing more than a farce and a facade. Overtime is non-existent even if you work 80 hour weeks (not to mention illegal & a breach of contract). Very often late hours aren't even necessary but because everyone seems to be totally fine working for free, the bosses must be thinking why the heck not? Try coming to the office on weekends and have a look for yourself.

The harder you work, the more you are exploited. Don't work so hard, because the harder you work, the more work gets assigned to you and less gets assigned to others so called 'less performer'. Pay rise and bonus is practically the same throughout the top and lowest performer - so why bother? Promotion is 'standard' annually.

Practically no real opportunity to venture abroad. Despite being a global firm, there is no real opportunity to undertake cross-country or overseas projects. There is also little real change of cross-country transfers, secondments, etc. 

Mundane jobs are very common. Being a professional firm, the expectation between at point of interview and actual jobs undertaken can be very different. It is solely based on luck what kind of jobs you get.

Too often you will also get the feeling you aren't actually doing anything meaningful. Loss sense of purpose, and emotional detachment from office if you stay any longer for 2 years or so.

Turnover is very high. Attributed to the turnover is all of the above. Turnover leads to lower morale, loss of the team spirit, etc.