Company: EY
Date: 2020-10-13
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Good Place to Work If You Like the Work; You'll Be Doing a Lot of It
Pros: Good benefits.

Good salary.

Lots of industries and projects to work on (get a breadth of experience).
Great people to work with, generally.

Flexible work schedules/environments (WFH is easy/allowed depending on the project, even before COVID).

Supportive/teaming work environment (not ultra-competitive/cut throat).
Cons: Lots of bureaucracy - To be expected in a large firm, I suppose.

Roll outs/communications of policy changes are done poorly

Lots of changes being made constantly to policies - For example: vacation policy has updated 2 times in 2 years.

Internal infrastructure needs updating - It's 2020, why do some EY tools only work in internal explorer?

Changing of Goal Posts - it seems like in the past year or so, the goal posts of what being good/great and setting yourself up for promotion keep changing (getting more difficult to achieve). Those changes aren't really communicated out, and it makes the review cycle a bit of a black box.

Work life balance is very tough - This is consulting; you know what you're getting into; the hours can be long (and you may not be allowed to book all those hours). If you like the work, this isn't a huge deal, but if you don't, it will be a nightmare of a job.