EY reviews

- Your experience working here is completely dependent upon the team that you get placed under. The company is SO BIG and attracts many different personalities, so it's a luck game to begin with. - The firm has been putting a HUGE emphasis on changeability since Covid starts in order to avoid layoffs, so expect a "growing pressure" on your working hour and productivity. Your weekly timesheet is being watched and scrutinized closely. - Staffs on some team are really miserable and overworked, while some are genuinely happy with their experiences (good luck rolling the dice as I have experienced both during my time here) - Partners and Senior Managers are approachable for the most part, or at least they try to be. I always appreciate the ones who are open-minded, care, and listen to what junior employees have to say, but not all is like that though. - Under certain teams, you are expected to work A LOT. From time to time, you will find yourself working from 9 AM to 3 AM of the next day for weeks and there is nothing you can do about it. - Some managers only get promoted based on their tenure, not their true capabilities or leadership potential. Sadly, people are not guaranteed to always be of high caliber here. Life will suck if you end up working under this type of managers, so watch out. - BELOW MARKET PAY! No performance-based bonus this year due to covid. Promotional raise is also expected to be very low this year. - For the most part, people are willing to help you grow, learn, and improve. EY is definitely known for its "hand-holding culture" compared to the rest of the world. But occasionally, you will come across those condescending bad eggs and it's a total pain to be working with them.

Like many people you may find yourself ready to graduate, when out of nowhere you see an email from EY recruiting. Here you are sold the idea of working for a Big 4 professional services firm. You may think of typical consulting with all the perks and benefits, loads of travel, great career opportunities, and excellent leadership and development. The SDC in Jacksonville is none of that. The SDC was brought to life by EY in an effort to reduce costs and to have an onshore operations center, this, of course, happens at the expense of recent college grads hooked on the name brand that is EY. If the subpar starting salary wasn't enough to convince you, the nature of the work you will be performing should be your next concern. Basically all the work that cannot be conducted overseas in India will be passed along to you, of course the other analysts and senior analysts in actual consulting positions will throw work you way too if they deem it is too remedial or boring for them to complete. From updating margins on powerpoints, to servicing SharePoint access requests and copy and pasting for hours, surely won't ever get bored ! How can EY operate a "tax" department where many of their employees haven't seen a tax form or learned about tax laws? If you want your business degree to feel like a waste of time then, by all means, get a job here If you are hoping to find a career with lots of promise, career development, managers that actually are invested in you and work that will develop some actual transferable skills then DO NOT get a job here. Better yet, just send the email to the trash folder because that's where it belongs. If that wasn't enough, let me close with this. Some employees outside of the SDC in Jax didn't even know that employees there held college degrees. The way you are treated, spoken to, and the caliber of the work surely reflects that what I mentioned above is prevalent in most of the other groups and markets in EY. The management at the SDC itself does not know what they are doing, and most of all do not care about the careers of the people here. No wonder the turnover rate is so high, most people don't last over 1 year. The things I wrote above only scratch the surface of the problems that are existent in this office, but hey at the end of the day you'll get to put Ersnt & Young on your resume.