EY reviews

3.6

70% would recommend to a friend

(83,776 total reviews)
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79% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

EY has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 83,776 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
Oct 3, 2023

Worst company to work

Recommend
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Pros

There is nothing good about this company.

Cons

Worst company to work as until you are there everything is good but if you leave they make you feel worst, like you wish you never joined the company. They had me let go and gave the reason that I was not performing well while all the team and all of my seniors had very good feedback about me even in the writing and I got very good raise just 5 months back and had great reviews just about a month ago. After that I found out they had mass layoff because they were doing the cost cutting as their sales team wasn't able to get any projects and were doing bad. They are so shameless that they can't accept that and giving they blame to others that the performance is not good. On top of that they mention they will help me out whatever I need in the transition but after 2 months I found they took all of my retirement saving amount and all the 401K contribution which was more than 20k. When I joined this was part of my package and they nowhere mention at that time that you need to be in company forever to get these, I was there for almost 3 years and they took all of that money as these were in there policies.

3.0
Sep 28, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits and pay are good for what you do: meetings and completing documentation leveraging prior year documents mostly. People are willing to help you. Mostly friendly coworkers.

Cons

I was once asked to try and assignment again on my own after work hours and not charge the company (free labor). Management does a bad job of making sure you are being utilized and then get upset when you are not. They say it's a remote position but pressure you to come to the office twice a week. They say you can request reviews from who you want but then message you and ask you to request a review from them specifically and nit pick everything you do. They put things in the review which do not directly impact the engagement or your performance.

2.0
Apr 1, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

1. Working with many different people. 2. Working on various projects. 3. Still option for remote work. 4. Learning how multinational firms operating. 5.Working under pressure to meet strict deadlines (There is a good side on this one - trust me).

Cons

1. Huge turnover of employees, anonymity prevails as they come and go - It gives you the impression that company doesn't care to keep the employees (that's the reality). No motivation to excel when you see a 10-year colleague "thrown out" in one day without even an better offer in order to stay at the firm. 2. No creative thinking , it all comes down to predifined procedures - Limited free of speech. 3. No real sharing of knowledge as a lot of seniors they try to show you things but due to strict deadlines or even due to competition no essential knowledge is being shared. Later on when you step in their shoes you understand. 4. Huge informational gap between entry positions and seniors - No real track of the performance of the entry positions employees as a result a lot of high performance and high IQ employees leaving the firm as their "talent" have not been evaluated properly while low performance employees stay at the firm as they don't have the same opportunnities or motivation to seek something better like the high performers mentioned before. 5. Low salaries - you may end up 5 years at the firm taking a 1,500 eur/ month as a manager. 6. No rotation between teams (seniors - assistants - interns) - as a result maybe feedback is skewed based only on a single person's opinion which could be extremely detrimental for the lower rank employee especially if someone considers that feedbacks are quite often influenced by personal frictions between employees as happens in any other big firm of course.That's why rotation in working groups is mandatory in every big organization. 7. The promotions are very often based on non-quantifiable factors, combining to point 6 mentioned before, a very subjective environment has been formed as far as the promotions... 8. A lot of hours working on multiple projects with strict deadlines and of course high levels of stress. 9.A lot of unprofessional behaviors adressed to HR and that's it, nothing happens...

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