Company: EY
Date: 2021-03-25
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Brutal work hours and expectations - No real AI/ quant opportunities for career growth
Pros: Admin / HR teams are helpful and do their job. Fitness reimbursement is encouraging. Free access to Udemy.
Cons: - Deep Learning / Quant / all fancy stuff is just on slides - Not in reality. The worst part is you will have to do most of these creative powerpoint decks

The canadian team is no where comparable to EY US / EY UK in terms of quality of Quant / FS relevant opportunities. In my years of experience here, I witnessed no good projects in the area of Quant space (such as Front-office pricing models (Heston process, local vol based), Market Risk (VaR/CVA etc) model development / validation). EY US/UK are the ideal places for quant, AI and FinTech implementation work.

 - The projects they do are mostly AML Transaction Monitoring (why should one study Stochastic calculus for ending up working on outdated rules-based modeling stuff?) , Credit risk (uncountable hours of Internal audit), DVC (internal auditing mostly)

- One of the leaders said during many occasions that 60 hours/week is a normal expectation

- You will most likely work on something else (on internal/decks/other client) besides your FULL-TIME work hours at a different client during after-hours in evenings