EY reviews

- Management has absolutely no respect whatsoever for employees - Management treat employees who are in their thirties and forties like 5-year old children - You may have to do really stupid tasks like get your boss's lunch or throw away your boss's trash just because he thinks he's above it, and even though you have Master's degrees and years of experience - Management often falsely accuse staff and employees of things that they did not do - The promotion goes to the coworker who goes out for 2-hour or 3-hour lunches, and you may not get one even though you work like a dog and skip meals to satisfy your boss - Most supervisors are micromanagers and do not let you work peacefully after administering your work - Managers are often dishonest in terms of chargeability, and will screw clients by charging them even though the employees are only "pretending" to do work or "looking busy," and this is especially done by senior/managers and above, only Staff actually do work at this firm, without getting any credit for it - A whole novel can be written about bad points of working at this seemingly great firm, don't come here just because of the name because it's equivalent to misjudging a book by its cover

Where to start....obviously, like any Big 4 - the hours are ridiculous. You may find one or two Senior Managers or Partners that can actually say they have a decent work-life balance, but the majority of all people that work at the Firm do not. You cannot. It seems to be a vicous cycle - many of the "best" people leave the firm to go on to succeed in industry. If you do the math, only a small percentage of people that work in the Firm are Partners - so, if good people leave - the majority of Managers and Senior Managers arent very good. The incompetence at that level is basically what drives the additional hours for those at the lower levels. Those running the engagements know nothing about project management, and often are lax on the subject matter so endless are are a result of poor planning and lots of rework. Additionally, EY (advisory) could care less about quality of work and "people". It is an endless grovelling to try and win and/or expand new work. Success at the firm means absolutely nothing about how much you actually know, or how hard you work. If you are a greasy snake and can stomach - selling sand to an elderly woman in a desert, - backstabbing your peers and the people working below you, and - smoozing and kissing butt to whonever is in power that year - you will go far. Otherwise it is best to get out after you have suffered through your "learning curve"