Company: EY
Date: 2021-01-14
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Good introduction to M&A
Pros: -Reactively good work life balance compared to investment banks and other m&a shops 
- Good level of training when joining, 3 week course on financial modelling
- Relaxed work environment and good culture
- Nice office 
- £20 dinner allowance after 9pm
- Access to partners due to relatively lean teams
Cons: - Heavily underpaid relative to hours worked (at least at analyst level)
- Low bonus relative to other m&a roles 
- Painful levels of admin and archaic internal systems
- complications due to audit relationships can be frustrating
- limited exposure to technical analysis / modelling vs experience at IBs