Company: EY
Date: 2014-02-01
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Interesting work but technology is arcane and very bureaucratic.
Pros: First and foremost, they still have a pension!  The work itself is interesting and you learn your specialty very in depth.  Senior managers and partners do know their specialty so you learn a lot.  People are generally very friendly and work environment is not overly competitive.
Cons: The technology is about 5-10 years behind the rest of the industry.  The organization greatly emphasizes hierarchy and is a bloated bureaucracy.  Lawyers and high paid execs who don't do the work are given too much influence.  Launch of "Vision 2020" is pressuring everyone to cut costs i.e. not hire enough people.  My group is very understaffed so the hours required to get work done in tax season are ridiculous.