Company: EY
Date: 2015-01-28
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Advisory PI
Pros: Great team, great atmosphere, great drive. Top heavy teams keep you learning all the time. Big wins in cool areas mean interesting projects and travel opportunities. Collaborative tech drives close involvement with other offices around Aus. A profitable business is a happy business. Lateral hire recruitment often involves senior candidates being interviewed by junior staff, which is cool for team cohesion.
Cons: You will never earn as much as a consultant as you will in industry, but it's a good investment in the long run. If you get stuck on a project that you're not wild about, it can be hard to get off. Peer-to-peer competition in advisory is stronger than in assurance, if that bothers you, but it can be managed without too much trouble. Requires a high level of initiative and self-direction to 'make it'- heaps of learning and support available, especially when you start, but think carefully if you are not generally good at rolling with the punches. The onus is on you to progress your own career- no conveyor belt.