Company: EY
Date: 2018-10-07
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Assurance senior
Pros: - Usually there is an ability to work flexibly and from home (but depends on team and manager)
- Large clients including FTSE100
- Client exposure very early on for juniors
- Exit opportunities with a big 4 on your CV
- Some supportive managers who care about their teams
Cons: - Hierarcial culture
- Drinking culture despite pushing itself for the 'diverse and inclusive' tagline
- Promotions not solely being on merit but based on office politics and 'who you know'
- Difficult to organise secondments abroad or to other service lines despite this being sold to new joiners as a perk of a global firm
- When I joined as a graduate associate, seniors above me were not very supportive or willing to coach others  and there was a blame culture on some teams against the most junior staff.
- Pay is in line with all other big 4 but still 10-15k below industry jobs for qualified accountants