Company: EY
Date: 2016-05-02
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Worst Work Experience till date
Pros: Diversity definitely is one of the best things that I came across at EY. Compensation and Benefits and also
Cons: I have worked both in the industry and consulting/advisory business over the past 14 years with 6 different employers and was really disappointed with the work environment at EY. I will not say that for the whole organization but this is definitely valid for the practice/skill area of IT Risk/Cyber Security that was part of. They have more than 12 teams in the UK led by different partners and business units doing the same thing in UK and trying to push and snub each other on their way with the worst being the EY EMEIA Advisory Centre folks. Dirty politics and with so much competition within the organization, the people in these teams end up doing other non-related work most of the time like Project Management and Business Analysis. The management SMs and above even don't have a good working relationship amongst  themselves and are trying to outgrow and outshine each other all the time, they do not have any sales and even more strangely chargeability targets which really do play in their performance assessments so in terms of work stress they rarely have to come across it. 

For Managers and below who have high chargeability targets to meet in order to get good ratings at performance assessments and chance of promotion, they have a lot of challenges to keep up with a good chargeability rate, avoid being on the bench for long and at the same time get good recognition of their work.

These different teams do not mingle and hate to work with each other or share resources unless absolutely necessary due to issues stated above plus an even more strange reason which is the pricing model used by each to sell work. An example of which is that the day rate of SC2 in one team is sometimes equal to SC3 or M1 rate of the other so frankly why would they take a junior person at a higher rate than getting someone senior at the same.

I will never recommend anyone to join the IT Risk/Cyber Consulting practice at EY UK.