Company: EY
Date: 2016-07-26
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

A great place to start your career, especially if you want to develop in accounting and finance.
Pros: - Great colleagues (overall) - from interns to managers;
- Best 'ACCA exams and courses' policy among all audit companies in Bulgaria;
- Except improving your knowledge on accounting standards, you also develop your soft skills as you are constantly in different teams and communicate directly with many clients throughout the year.
- In addition to your salary, you receive health insurance, food vouchers, mobile phone and sim, a card for many different sports (free of charge once a day) 
- The work is dynamic and interesting as you can be in a different client and sector each week.
- EY is with the highest market share in Bulgaria for assurance services.
Cons: - The salaries are low, having in mind all responsibilities and the constant amount of work you have;
- In the busy season (December - June) there might be literally no time for personal life. You will always be behind schedule and at some point you will feel guilty for not working at home in the weekend;
- You will be constantly "challenged" to perform tasks, which are not designed for you and your level of expertise. This is due to the fact that some colleagues (especially seniors) start leaving in the middle of the season and the remaining staff is already over-utilized.
- Stupid evaluation system - the team in Greece decides there will be X people with such score, Y people with such and so on. At year end all managers gather and start promoting the assistants and seniors from their team and the final score depends not only on your performance, but also on the manager's authority in the Company.
- There are currently 5 groups in EY Bulgaria and the experience in each group is rather different - you might work only with small clients and travel often or have only large clients and stay in Sofia most of the time, or work with only one client all the time; your clients might be financial institutions or everything else (Retailers, Production companies, Services providers, Telecoms and TVs, etc). Most probably you will be performing external audit but there is a slight chance you will be in the group for internal audits and fraud investigation. Having this in mind it is advisable to mention your expectations and preferences during the interviews as some colleagues are not happy with the groups they are put into and leave sooner or later.