Company: EY
Date: 2019-12-03
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

You need to be lucky or confident to get something useful beyond the accountancy qualification
Pros: If you have a good team to coach you, and good client to work on, you will have enough motivation to easily plough through the busy season, the accountancy exams and will have enough enjoyment to push yourself to do whatever you want to in EY.

The name on the CV is ok, but not really a big pro in the grand scheme of things.

People here are like you, so in parties and social events, you will have fun.

If you are a highly confident type, look the part, and know what you are doing from the start, you can do well here and gain promotions faster.
Cons: Too bad for most of the graduates in london audit, you will not have good coaches because everyone is fighting to do their own work and they are not teachers. They are not there to teach you as they themselves do not understand their clients very well. Part of this reason is because of the ridiculous high turnover. Expect to be thrown into the pool, and survive on your own. Performance is focused on the year end review so it is a checkbox exercise, and it is not focused on yourself in terms of what you need to improve. And even then, a huge factor of your score is largely determined on both who your coaches are and which clients you were working on.

Also the usual cons, as per usual if you researched the auditing industry - the busy season hours are grossly high for the low pay for the work as well as the uncoopoerative clients if you are unlucky, provides plenty of negative motivation. 

If you are looking for a graduate job, unless you are looking to be an accountant, best to stay away and do something else. You would be more valued as a person elsewhere.

In particular, if you are not the sociable type, I can see that you will have a very bad time here.