EY reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(83,963 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 83,963 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
Sep 8, 2017

Assurance Staff

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Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are nice. Big name on a resume.

Cons

Everything else. There is no culture, the "people" everyone speaks of are few and far between, the hours are insane, the pay is low for the amount of work you're required to do (no bonuses like the other Big 4), incredibly inefficient obsessing over teams budgets but then being forced to work longer hours. The list goes on and on.

1.0
Sep 1, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- engage with different types of clients. Understand the clients a lot more if you have continuity; - time is provided to study ACA; - flexible working if you are senior; - some nice people around you; - one of the best places to be trained as accountant; - genuine nice partners (normally those who has been a partner for a while)

Cons

- extremely low pay per hour, if you add all the overtime spent into it. Also I believe EY offers the lowest pay among big four; - if your manager is disorganised, don't care and not supportive, you will end up in a lot of trouble and spend all your weekend on things; - Also too many hierarchy: sometimes manager and senior manager speak different things and you end up waiting days to do things later on being told not necessary; - promotion, rating is all about who you know. You can work your axx off but still not getting any reward apart from a thank you card; - you will never be only working on one client; there will always be left overs and you are expected to carry on working. This is bad for resourcing (understaffed); - bonus is a joke; - you need to be 'promoted' to assistant manager before going for manager; none of the big four does this; - some regional offices have very bad office politics going around; - brain-washing culture: setting up impossible goal and even if achieved there is zero reward to staff. Sugar-coat everything and made people believe that money doesn't matter and it is OK to lose market share etc.

1.0
Aug 15, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

People, Brand value and parties

Cons

1) No work life balance 2) No personal life 3) No career growth 4) No 'transparent' work culture 5) Treats people as commodities Senior Management are a bunch of money making people whose intention is to over commit to the client and throw the team under the bus. Full Stop.

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