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Please understand if you are thinking this is a Big4 and joining here your job search ends then you are wrong. Job search actually starts here. There are 50% people who leave EY GDS advisory-PI division due to mental harassment, inhuman pressure. First they will put you into some client interview. If you can't clear then managements attitude will change. You will be humiliated daily. Please understand EY GDS is not Big4. They are backend for all EY member firms so expect poor quality work/process. There is no clear role/career path. For example I was hired as a project manager and I was given the work that a fresher does and was humiliated daily on all nonsense reasons. Manager and senior manager have monopoly there. If you complain to higher ups against your manager immediately you will get a call from manager with a threat for your complain. Technically there is no focus. If you are a java resource they will assign you a python project and ask to deliver from next day. Hence, 14-15 hours of work and weekend work is normal here. You will be exploited, humiliated daily. This is typical bodyshop. If you are ready to face this then please join for few bucks. If you resign they will try to throw some money at your face and shut you up. Don't take this offer else it will be even worse for you. Favouritism is dominant here. If you are from Kerala by default you are candidate for good rating/promotion. If you are ready to forget your role in previous company, respect and skill then please come and join. At least 50% people leave within 6 months and they are OK with it as their project duration is 1-2 week. Within 6 month people work on atleast 3-4 projects. Then again they do a mass hire.

Occasionally, I still have nightmares about my time in EY FS. I avoid certain pubs, and even walking down certain streets after work in the evening in case I meet the person who bullied me, or any of the people who supported and protected him. I worked in FS Marketing for 10 months. In that time, I got wonderful feedback from partners across the business. I was well liked by my colleagues, many of whom I keep in touch with, and I broke a number of records in terms of our marketing metrics. Despite this, I had a manager who made my life miserable. Mountains were made out of molehills in order for him to justify it. An overtly sexist, racist and homophobic man, he seemed to hate it thatin a short time I had developed strong working relationships with people who were more senior than him. He hated that I called him out for saying wildly inappropriate things. And he took his revenge when he got the chance, choosing moments when I was experiencing family tragedies to apply added pressure, to put his boot on my neck. His second-in-command, a mediocre yes-woman repeatedly backed him up, and the HR department repeatedly pointed out that he’d been working there longer than me and essentially made me feel like I was just causing trouble. Two very senior partners completely ignored me when I reached out to them after I left the company to highlight the behaviour. Three of my colleagues resigned within a few weeks of me, reflecting the horrendous atmosphere in the team. I quietly hoped the management would see this for what it was and take action accordingly. And they did – this man was promoted… It appears to me that bullying isn’t just tolerated within EY FS Marketing, it’s tacitly supported. It’s been more than six months since I left. I’ve spent hours in therapy talking about this man, and how the company supported him. I’m in a much better place now, but even still I just get a horrible feeling in my stomach even thinking about that place.