EY reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(83,942 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 83,942 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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1.0
Jul 11, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to start work, treat it like a university that pays you a small amount of money, you get some entry level experience, then you leave.

Cons

You get paid so bad. Like really bad. No matter how hard you work, the only way to move up faster is getting into a lucky situation where something you can do is desperately needed, and even if that is the case, unless you can negotiate, they'll just exploit you to do the work and pay you the same. You'll reach a point where you do just enough to not get fired, as there's no reason to do anything more. They don't care about you, why care about them? For the record, I was rated the highest rating 4 years in a row, and got nothing extra. I discussed this with directors and they said they want to change that, but good luck essentially.

2.0
Jul 5, 2020

Best compared to working in World War trenches

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Looks good on a resume - Your work “war stories” will almost certainly be better/more gruesome than any of your friends in industry - Free busy season dinners (aka $25 worth of compensation for 5-7 hours of overtime every day)

Cons

Pretty much everything. It’s difficult to know where to begin as there’s so much to choose from. - Compensation: EY underpays everyone. Despite touting their “extensive market studies into compensation,” you are underpaid by a dramatic amount. Ex: friends who left after a year as staff took jobs in industry for +$17k more than what they had been making at EY. But don’t worry. Compensation is guaranteed to be “aligned with market rates.” - Bonuses/recognition awards: EY is one big popularity contest and reviews and recognition awards reflect that. Occasionally someone may endow you with a bravo award for $25-$100 for your efforts, but usually not. Also considering the amount of overtime, the amount of these awards is a joke. - And now for the biggest con: THE PEOPLE. I noticed there are a number of reviews here citing EY’s people as the best part of working at the firm, and I can only conclude that those reviews were written under extreme duress. I have had a number of jobs in accounting and outside of accounting and I can say with confidence that all of the worst people I’ve ever worked with have been at EY. The firm breeds a particular type of person due to poor firm culture, but more on that later.

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