Company: EY
Date: 2014-11-23
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Plus: Varied assignments. Minus: Lots of travel
Pros: In Business Advisory, you get to work on a variety of clients and type of assignments. A cost reduction project might be followed by a market forecast one and a manufacturing improvement assignment might be followed by a growth strategy project. (For people coming in with a wish to specialise in a solution, this might be a bit of a let down). 
EY has sector specific teams but it is also moving towards a "one advisory" concept where if a resource is idle, he /she might be deployed in a project of some other team.
Salary is good (at par with Big4) and if you perform well, the year end bonus is a sizeable amount.
Cons: Travel is a big issue. Most operations improvement projects are client-site based with a flyback to base location every alternate week. This is a problem for married guys, especially on long assignments (a year or more). You might end up spending four days a month at home for long periods.
There is an amount of uncertainty built within the job. Your next project might take you to a different location, different sector with the mandate to implement a solution altogether new to you.