Company: EY
Date: 2016-08-03
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former

Staff - ISAC (Cleveland, OH)
Pros: It is based out of Cleveland where the living expenses are low
Cons: This review is specific to the ISAC (IT Shared Analysis Center) team in Cleveland, OH

Modern day slavery – quantity of work you do is given maximum importance. You are bribed with terms like “Green card” and “Promotion”, but deemed “not good enough for this” and screwed over during year-end review process

No career growth – The kind of work you do here can be done by 10th grade students. No degree is required to convert text to excel, correct spelling mistakes on files, re-order columns on excel. Their actual “technical” work is anything but technical – Clicking buttons to generate reports, copy paste existing code and change spellings, “Configure” environments (Fancy terminology for changing ON to OFF)

No work life balance – your private cell phone number is taken for emergencies but you are constantly contacted at odd times of the day and weekends for unimportant stuff in the name of “deadlines” that don’t exist

Toxic work environment – People are always angry, unhappy, spiteful or in tears

Poor work structure – Multiple projects with different types of tasks causing each person to work for 12 – 13 hours a day just to get 9 hours of billable time. Lot of time wasted in unwanted documentation, waiting on responses from clients/managers, switching times to mentally prepare for a new task, thrown into a project and later expected to learn what it is about (learning times not counted as billable time therefore having to work extra hours a day/night). Complete disaster

No flexibility – There is nothing remotely Ernst & Young like about this team. You have no flexibility to work from home unless you have a physical disability that is causing you to be immobile. You HAVE to work physically from the office even though every other person you work with is working from different parts of the country. The team works primarily out of Cleveland, OH (That in itself should have been enough reason not to join this team), you will not be allowed to change your work location until you reach manager level. If finally you decide that this team is not meant for you and request for an internal transfer, you will face one of the following: 1. Blocked from transferring and forced to continue working for that team 2. Transfer approved for 12 months in the future 3. Fired. You just have to take your chance

Please reconsider before you join this team. The name Ernst & Young might be lucrative, but this team is an anomaly to the organization. The management has a really twisted mentality and will play you and squeeze every bit of life from you in the name of “Utilization”. Your concerns will NEVER be addressed and your career progress will remain stagnant. Worst decision of my life. Truly traumatic experience.