EY reviews

No real choice in the projects get to do as projects are few and far between so you if you are on the bench, you get whatever comes up that can make you chargeable. Salary is extremely low and not at all competitive with the market, most people that leave SDC see bumps of anywhere from 20-30% for similar roles. The work requires no real skill or effort to accomplish and so you don't really learn any marketable skills other than client interaction and maybe SQL depending on the project. Advisory counterparts on your projects will be performing the exact same work that you are but are paid 20-30% more. Most of the traditional consulting perks (e.g. travel, short and varied projects, choice of projects, engaging work) are missing from SDC.

The workloads are insane & I am not a lazy person. This applies to junior admin, Exec Assts, and managers. Seeing people at their desks from 8 am - 10 pm is not uncommon. Spent just over 3 years there and took an actual lunchbreak maybe 30% of the time. I rarely left before 7 pm so 11 hr days were common. They have a model of piling up to 5 demanding Partners on one Exec Asst and it is horrendous. I was involved in hiring & had to leave the firm due to my conscience bothering me; seeing bright & ultra-capable people accept the job and then be burned out and mentally exhausted 3 months in was hard to take. The Director of my former department knows darn well they need to overall the working model but ... doubt it will happen. There are far better places to go if you are bright & capable. It will sound like a great place in the interview process but ... just don’t. It baffles me they can boast of work / life balance when a huge percentage of staff are pulling insane overtime year round. There is no “slow season” despite what they say. Was grateful to have a job & income but in over 20 yrs, easily the most draining & toxic environment I have worked in. 99% of my peers left either before me or soon after; we were all part of the same hiring wave ... about 20 of us.