Company: EY
Date: 2018-11-26
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

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Pros: Most of the people I met there were friendly, interesting and helpful - a lot of employees consider it the strongest advantage. The corporate training sessions were usually taking place abroad and had inspiring speakers.  EY has a lot of fun internal traditions and initiatives, where you can take part of, meet new people, work for the good causes and charities together.
Cons: The manager and executive director was uninterested in team management and dividing the workload was never considered as their responsibility. On the contrary, the usual routine was that the manager gives all of the tasks to the consultants and the understanding is that the consultants at some point must say "no" and must speak to the managers saying that they don't have enough time to complete the assigned tasks. The other team members never overtake your tasks when you are ill or on holidays. This leads to long hours of overtime before and after your holidays, which never lets you to fully rest. Also, I and a lot of people that I knew there, were working from home although they were on a sick leave. The bureaucracy also led to the fact that I had to wait for 6 months before I could get officially promoted. And 3 more months to get the first larger salary. Knowledge sharing is also something that nobody has time for. The usual practice is to give the new task with as little explanation as possible and let you figure it out yourself. I aggree that learning by doing is one of the ways of learning, however, constant re-doing things, especially when everyone is already overloaded with tasks, is not efficient. The attitude of the managers, pointing out the mistakes instead of explaining the things that appeareantly are unclear to the person doing the task, is also not helping and demotives. The unflexibility and the culture where everyone is feeling guilty leaving the work at 6 PM is not a healthy workplace.