EY reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(83,965 total reviews)
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79% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

EY has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 83,965 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The EY employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Dec 30, 2009

Nerd Herd

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Pros

Great place to start career and build resume. Exposure to client management even at very junior levels. Lots of intelligent coworkers to learn from. Young workforce and easy to build relationships while working on 2-6 week stints with different people each time. Partner compensation is very attractive if you are willing to sacrifice your life and family.

Cons

The most well rounded people always leave because the work/life balance is impossible and they value more in their life than a big salary and massive vacation home they never get the chance to use because they are working so much, or that they use but spend the whole time on their blackberry or working remotely. Everyone sees how much the partners work and nobody wants to be them these days (seem to still be using a 50-year old business model where everyone wanted to just just work for one company and get to the top - not realistic anymore). So the partner group ends up being a nerdy bunch with little in the way of social skills, and/or egomaniacs. The audit practice is cyclical and very difficult to manage so they shortsightedly let people go in slower times when chargeability is down then are short staffed when it is inevitably busy again, leading to staff being overworked and unhappy and, again, the better people leaving. Cycle continues. Win a bunch of "Top Employer" awards by offering very obscure services/benefits that nobody uses. Audit practice is generally thankless as clients are not actually paying for something they want, only something they require. Client staff often defensive as they think you are out to find their errors and get them fired. Morale therefore hard to maintain. Can't win on budgeting/chargeability - either you are efficient and do a good job but are not chargeable enough or you are very chargeable but get heat for blowing budgets.

4.0
Dec 29, 2009

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Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

great learning experience starting out

Cons

work very very long hours

4.0
Dec 26, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Great learning experience. You have exposure to different clients in various industries until you decide to focus on one industry when promoted to senior auditor. Set promotion pattern is usually guaranteed for most employees meeting expectations. Senior auditor in two years, manager three years after, senior manager in three years.

Cons

Very poor work/life balance. You pretty much work all the time. The higher you advance the more time you spend working. The experience is not worth as much as it used to be. After the layoffs there are tons of former Big 4 people out there. Pure audit background is great if you want a position in internal audit or as a controller, but difficult to transfer into any other area.

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