Company: EY
Date: 2019-01-27
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Not building a better working world in EY GDS
Pros: Excellent L&D Structure, tools and investment
Projects are varied - good to have different exposures
Jump here to get some salary boost and get out asap.
Benefits are good at first.
some managers are considerate and good to their people
Cons: low key racism: GDS India has advanced a lot of their employees in contrast to other sites. In projects, they put someone from their site to be the point of contact with onshore counterparts/clients instead of someone who is more qualified but from another site
favoritism is rampant in local site
instead of a multinational culture in the office, they have a local company's culture
lot of admin tools like timesheets that are software silos, and integrated reports are done manually
Performance evaluation are iffy and not laid out
Management has gives no concern on career advancement of employees

Work-life balance is dwindling due to Manager makes draconian leave policies that are not in-line with HR / company policy such as requiring medical certificate for 1 day sick leave instead of 3 consecutive days, and also adding additional clauses. Leaves are harder to get implying we are not allowed to take leaves.
Manager gives, and expects, people who are 100% engaged to a project to take another project, instead of giving new projects to idle resources
Manager doesn't curtail abusive behavior by talking to these people individually, instead making a policy for all, even if only a handful are abusive
Manager adds more red tape to processes by making himself the sole final approver, and then doesn't provide timely approvals.
Manager suppresses information by not cascading information on time, or at all

We are not allowed to have skip level meetings, and if we even did have one, the direct manager and his manager are in that meeting. These skip level meetings are being repressed.
There is no feedback mechanism for management. If you have an ineffective manager, tough luck.
Manager is a rumor monger who doesn't provide direct feedback to let people grow, instead he narrates the feedback to other team members. Also narrates confidential items mentioned during 1on1's.
Concerns to management went mostly unheard. No actions being taken.
Most of the assigned counselors are ineffective, and just going through the motions instead of taking the role seriously.
Managers treat their team as their personal king/queendoms and expect all their members to be yes-men. no dissent allowed. Any dissent is being retaliated with favoritism to yes-mens, which includes not nominating a performer just for having an opinion that clashes with manager's (context is that the manager has what people think a bad decision), manager does not implement rules to his members who are his friends, etc.
Employees are being staffed to projects where there is no growth for their primary competency, and not aligned with their career plans


Facilities:
A lot of insects going around in the office and in the comfort room. 
Only 1-2 cubicles out of 10 are in use and others are locked as "out of order"