Company: EY
Date: 2021-03-10
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

High workload and expectations for uncompetitive pay
Pros: Brand name of the company is good. Their marketing department deserves a raise for convincing so many workers to accept the below market salary in the hopes they are rewarded in “career development”. 

Good work culture in general. As peak comes every year people are a lot more cranky and unreasonable, but that’s part and parcel of peak.
Cons: Extremely high workload and unreasonable expectations for the salary they are giving out. Do not expect any work life balance, be it during peak or not. Staff has been airing their grievances about the covid pay increment cut while workload has increased but management does not care. 
Company is reliant on poaching from mid tier to fill the ranks, or hiring Malaysians who can be satisfied with the meagre salary. Perhaps that is why they are facing a crunch now as they are unable to hire as many Malaysians with the restrictions. No worries, once the restrictions are over, they could be hiring more. After all, management is certainly not incurring any additional staff costs as long as everyone OTs to pick up the slack. 

Company has announced a bonus of 0.2 months to make up for the pay increment cut while telling us they will review pay increment “soon”. No guessing what that means. No worries, other companies have gone or are going back to pre-covid pay as they want talent. EY is more than happy for more Malaysians to do the work if the locals are disgruntled.

Company still expects quality service despite the “competitive” salary they are paying. Strange. Perhaps the competitive salary refers to partners’ pay?

Given the management’s idea of competitive salary and their incessant whining about “poor revenue”, I have no choice but to give a poor business outlook since that is what they claim. Never mind our expanding portfolios, that must have been an illusion when we worked till the next day.