Company: EY
Date: 2020-02-06
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Consulting/Advisory: Conservative, toxic culture; Absent leadership
Pros: Salary out of masters programs is on par with other Big 4 firms
For some reason
Cons: - Leadership is stuck in the old ways the world works - they don't embrace changing trends or demographics, insisting that things stay how they have always been instead of adopting the digital strategies and technologies that we push to our clients. Consulting/Advisory is what is going to drive revenue over the next decade and leadership refuses to stop setting strategy and business policies focused on the Audit/Tax groups.

- We pay our own Amex bills, meaning if the firm disagrees with an expense, you pay it out of pocket until they deign to acknowledge it was a legitimate expense. Everyone I know has had to pay business expenses out of pocket with no hope of reimbursement due to the antiquated policies.

- Senior Managers and Partners are absent at best and yet live with God complexes that derails projects whenever they decide to give even 50% of their attention to the work at hand. Feedback is one way, meaning no one above a Manager can provide feedback on leadership. Additionally, company wide feedback is completely subjective, making end of cycle variance volatile and comparing individuals nearly impossible. 

- Projects are consistently understaffed in order to offer deals to clients so they pick EY instead of competitors as they are well aware that our reputation is not the best in the business, or even the Big 4. Work/life balance is a myth, and if you try to set boundaries you are punished.