Company: EY
Date: 2021-01-23
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Grass is greener elsewhere
Pros: Not much, other than the fact that you train up on your technical skills and exposure to a variety of industries and companies. In addition, many MNCs do look for Big 4 candidates especially in the Finance role.
Cons: - low pay at associate to senior level
- OT culture (very common in Big 4, I know even before I joined but you really see emails flying around at 2/3/4am)
- to add on to OT culture, my first year I worked from 9am to 5am, grab home wash up, rest 2h and came back to work, REPEAT X5-6 TIMES A WEEK)
- toxic culture (seniors and managers are not appreciative of your work, they take the extra effort and work you put in for granted)
- adding on to toxic culture: personal experience with toxic seniors that sent you extremely long emails just to criticise you and put you down, the kind where you go into office in the morning with a happy mood and when you see the email from senior, your whole day is ruined
- my own experience with line manager: my LM has never talked to me, even for feedback sessions, except for my last day in EY. To be very honest, a good manager is important in your first few years of career