Company: EY
Date: 2009-01-13
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current

Pretty good place to work for a tax person.
Pros: There are alot of resources available to you -- from firm sponsored training to national tax specalists.  They are usually pretty good with flexible work arrangements and encourage mobility and flexiblity.
Cons: Alot of administrative red tape - professionals will find themselves spending lots of time of adminstrative garbarge that non-professionals should be doing.  While there's something to be said for having specialists and resources, maybe it's a little too siloed -- you end up with 8 different "speciality" persons on any given project.  Senior Managers are expected to function like PPEDs, without being compensated for it -- and all of the development of staff/seniors fall on them and the managers.  There is very little focus paid by PPEDs on development of personnel.  Salaries among a given level vary widely and there is no transparency whatsoever.  You are CONSTANTLY reminded of your utilization -- you hear about it if you do not meet your utilization goals and in the same breath your hours on a given project will be questioned.  This focus on budget and utilization are in conflict.  They are also horrendously bad with getting new hires integrated -- clearly they hire people who are bright and experienced and there's a need for them yet you have to "sell" yourself to a group for up to a year before you can get any work -- makes absolutely no sense.