EY reviews

1) if you have disabilities, beware of covert and overt discriminations. Management and staff often make your disabilities worse or use it against you 2) hr is completely rude and inhuman 3) there's a lot of politics and if you're not in the in group, you'll get screwed 4) ey can stop people from taking their exams if they don't like you. This is even if you pass all your previous exams 5) a lot of long hours, yet it's only appreciated if you're in the "in group" 6) there is covert racism 7) promotion is based on being in the "in group", not capabilities 8) there's a lot of backstabbing which can make life hell and remind of school

Way more of an old boys club feel than other Big 4 firms. Few women in business consulting (read: not tax or internal audit) above level of manager. EY is not anti-women and the women that are there are outstanding and very pro-women. It's just that the guys tend to go to lunch together and hang out together outside of work (not just at the associate/senior levels) so if you're not "one of the guys" it can be tough to build the strong relationships needed to get pulled in to sell work or be assigned to work on good projects. This may be a result of so many sr managers & partners returning to EY from Cap Gemini (EY consulting that was spun off in the late 90's) once their non-compete agreement w/EY expired. From my experience and conversations with friends, KPMG and Deloitte seem more pro-female. Performance Improvement managers must average 45 hrs a week billable to be at 100% utilzation, but many clients only allow you to bill 40 hrs, so if this gives you very litle room during the year if you are between engagement. Lots of people get hurt by this, especailly, if a client pushes back a start date and you're the subject matter resource for the project (and can't quickly be deployed elsewhere).