There is a culture of bullying from team leaders and senior staff to lower level staff. This is hidden with a veneer of pretending to care about staff progress, career journey and personal wellbeing, but then will use any information you provide against you and gaslight you into believing whatever may suit their agenda at the time, manipulating you into thinking you are not good at your role or are at risk of losing your job. There is a nasty culture of management and senior staff talking behind staffs' back; this has become a normalised and accepted behaviour. Team leaders are not looking after the needs of their teams; instead they serve themselves first and foremost regardless of the consequences to their team. The office politics create a toxic environment that will eat into your self esteem and make you feel self conscious and distract you from thriving while doing your job. For a company that prides itself on having one of the best cultures to work in, I am very disappointed in how EY looks after it's executive assistants and general administrative staff in CBS. My experience with some colleagues has been great, there are some fantastic people working for EY, but the difference between the culture reputation and culture reality is shockingly vast, and overall experience has been pretty appalling.
