EY reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(83,897 total reviews)
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Janet Truncale

79% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

EY has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 83,897 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 Finanzen industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Jul 17, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

As in any office environment you will meet great people. If your objective is to learn, you will find how/what and people who can help to develop/advance your skills. With a bit of effort of finding good reasons and mentors you can learn a great deal and get exposed to multitude of practices/industries. Variety is truly abundant, but you have to hunt for it despite every team being understaffed - nothing will be presented on s silver platter.

Cons

Leadership is nonexistent. PPD are rarely present and have little interest in their people. High turnover for managers and seniors. No staff. Little to none outsourcing support. If you are a manager/senior you will do jobs of at least 4 people in addition to training armies of interns. You will hear "open door" policy a lot, but God forbid you will mention anything negative. No one wants to hear the truth. Promotions are based solely on personal friendships. Thus, top heavy firm with no recognition for lower ranks. Bonuses are a joke.

1.0
Jun 24, 2016

IT Advisory

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Good place to gain experience and learn how to deal with stressful situations for fresh graduates. -Salary might be a bit higher than other companies (IT position) for entry level.

Cons

-No worklife balance -No year end bonus, no pay for overtime, very low winrate if consider total working hours. It's more of a rule that personal time should be used to satisfy delivery deadline, which is 80% time unrealistic due to poor management decision (over commitment), overturn, and poor budgeting -Poor project budgeting(they budget lower than actual, you will only get 20 hr billable time for a 50 hour workload, which basically make you a 'low performance' employee while you're spending nights and weekends to deliver by deadline.) -Repeated work, you're out of market (as a IT professional) if you work for them more than 1 year. -They always try to rush things out of door and never bother to put high quality in the product which totally against my personal value and standard as a IT professional. -The group leader don't know and don't trust his fellows staffs, team get yelled at and received stressful emails from him eventhough everyone is working their fingers off. I feel no respect from my group for my value, dedication, and hard working. -Very high turnover. Worst thing is, it never get leadership attention and get them change anything. It's more of intentionally ignored because by hourly rate we are cheap labor. -I'm a good employee with high rating, but I'm very disappointed and start losing hope for this company after 1st year.

3.0
Jan 19, 2016

Ridiculous office politics

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great place to launch the career. Big company more opportunities to get involved within the groups. Have many opportunities to learn new skills and work in areas.

Cons

Too political, most senior management employees thinks it's normal to back stab junior employees or whomever they want to cover up their failures. The management provides confusing instructions on client billing etc. The policy states bill what you work, then the individual project management penalizes you to no end making your working life a misery. I had 2 Senior Manager's and a partner discriminate at a group setting while on a project and when I attempted to complain to HR, my counselor (who is known to the group of managers) gave harsh warnings to drop the case. If you want to get ahead in your career here, you have to do whatever it takes to satisfy the senior management, the only favoritism gets you ahead. In my opinion, the 80+ hours of work weeks, on top of 10 hours a week travel time is not worthwhile in the long run. Unless you make partner and stay at a partner level for at least 5 years, then your life is living nightmare. Is it worth it? you can probably make the same money up until you make senior partner elsewhere, and see your kids grow up and not miss life in living. You get one life in this life, why to waste it on an ungrateful company! the company has too aggressive goals for growth that is not sustainable. most of the employees are on the bench as partners are not selling merely enough as the recruitment. But you as an employee will get penalized for low utilization. It's good if you are single and young.

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