Company: EY
Date: 2015-05-24
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Extremely variable depending on who you work for
Pros: + sponsor visa's, and desperate hiring for qualified staff from around the world. Thus easy route for immigration and settlement.
+ sponsorship for aca qualification
+ grad training: for insight to businesses
+ sports teams
+ good for parents, part time.
+ good opportunities if you know who to game the system (Though I would argue unethical)
Cons: London offices:
- extremely variable experience according to the teams you end up working with: many (senior) managers are awful, and short sighted.
- understaffed: unfair work distribution and no overtime pay (UK)
- hard work is rarely noticed or appreciated (As staff are commoditised)
- on the job training (for new joiners, grads) extremely variable and usually poor, as providing mentoring and on the job coaching is not rewarded.
- cliques between ppl persist, despite the best interests of the co or the client. Although the company brags about equal opportunities.
- there's a layer of (senior) managers who are legacy, with terrible management skills (normally hired 5-10 yrs ago).
- Women are often unfairly advantaged to the disbenefit of male peers, as the company strives to look 'diverse'. Directors openly talk of how there is a quota to promote female directors.
- aggressive individuals tend to do favourably better for promotion, so if you want to succeed, firstly identify who to take on the smallest work load. If your a hard worker who wants to help your team, you'll be crushed with un realistic work and not rewarded.
- Expect burn out of 90% of new hires within 3 yrs. Often leading to lots of sick leave.