Company: EY
Date: 2019-07-05
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Worst workplace I have encountered in my lengthy career.
Pros: Very nice colleagues (other than more than a few arrogant Partners), physical office space is modern, global firm so transfers to other locations are possible
Cons: The workloads are insane & I am not a lazy person. This applies to junior admin, Exec Assts, and managers. Seeing people at their desks from 8 am - 10 pm is not uncommon.
Spent just over 3 years there and took an actual lunchbreak maybe 30% of the time.
I rarely left before 7 pm so 11 hr days were common.
They have a model of piling up to 5 demanding Partners on one Exec Asst and it is horrendous.
I was involved in hiring & had to leave the firm due to my conscience bothering me; seeing bright & ultra-capable people accept the job and then be burned out and mentally exhausted 3 months in was hard to take. 
The Director of my former department knows darn well they need to overall the working model but ... doubt it will happen.
There are far better places to go if you are bright & capable. 
It will sound like a great place in the interview process but ... just don’t.
It baffles me they can boast of work / life balance when a huge percentage of staff are pulling insane overtime year round. There is no “slow season” despite what they say.
Was grateful to have a job & income but in over 20 yrs, easily the most draining & toxic environment I have worked in. 99% of my peers left either before me or soon after; we were all part of the same hiring wave ... about 20 of us.