Company: EY
Date: 2011-07-15
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Highs and Lows
Pros: High growth and ambitious (for an accountancy firm)
You work on engagements that work for your development needs and your personal life
Decent working hours
60% of the people are highly capable and decent people
We put customers first
Very supportive of personal issues
Great range of engagements to work on
Cons: As a people focused organisation, we are therefore really bad at all our internal processes from admin through to promotion
Consequently more about who you know than what you know
Lack of transparency and integrity of processes
Putting customers first means putting staff last
20% of the people are out of their depth, talk jargon to cover up, cause havoc and seem to get away with it??
Directors trying to get to Partner are a nightmare 
Very Machiavellian and not enough openess and collaboration
We don't compete on price - whilst it's commercially the right thing to do, feels like we're going into pitches with an automatic disadvantage