Company: EY
Date: 2020-06-28
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Toxic Work Culture - Get the name under your belt and leave asap
Pros: The company name is impressive to have on your CV and you are exposed to a large workforce and therefore ranges of experience to learn from.
Cons: 1. EY Company Culture - Be positive by praising the company and (specific) coworkers constantly whilst maintaining an air of bullying, mistrust, and resent behind the scenes.
2. Favouritism is quite blatant - Opportunities were only given to specific people on the team. When I questioned this, I was told the opportunities wouldn't be arising again soon so it was just bad luck that they forgot me this time around (this happened several times). Given the team structure, this appeared like EY had some serious issues with diversity. 
3. Diversity - One junior member of the team (L1 like myself) made unintentionally racist comments twice. The first time to a new senior manager to the team who left the conversation shortly thereafter and the second time to myself, thus precipitating my resignation. I reported this to the senior team during my resignation but never received an apology or any feedback. I was told that "she couldn't possibly have meant it that way" and "[I] know she's not really like that".
4. Training - I was not provided with any training when joining the team, but was subject to the same standards and criticism as those with training. When I asked for training, it was implied I had mental health issues....by our team "Mental Health Champion"!! I ended up calling the mental health line who confirmed that asking for training was not unreasonable.
5. Bullying - I understand having to adapt work style depending on the manager you work with. However, where details such as line spacing or font colour in a powerpoint were not to their preference, the criticism was given in what seemed like veiled anger. When I asked for more guidance or templates in advance to help meet their expectations I was told to just be more understanding of the pressures senior people are under. 
-One manager in particular was very aggressive towards me in her feedback. I asked for advice on how to deal with this and seemed to kick off a huge blame game between senior staff. No one actually advised me on how to talk to this manager, instead they suggested I write negative upwards feedback about other staff they didn't like. I obviously did not do this and resigned as it was finally clear how toxic the work environment was.