EY reviews

Salary and annual increases are average. Bonuses (PBB) are low. The pool was funded at 150% this year and most got 2-6% of salary. I came from FinTech, so maybe my expectations were higher. Very long hours and lots of work make it difficult to actually use the ‘flexible PTO’. Even though we’ve done WFH as the default - very successfully- for 1.6 years, they are starting to hype return to office. I don’t know anyone that wants to return to an office, not even in a hybrid model, especially as the variants spread and infections increase. Lots of burnout and high turnover.

It's no surprise that the hours during busy season at a public accounting firm will be long but I did not expect to work 80-90 hr weeks for 2 1/2 months straight during the summer busy season. My physical and mental health were hanging by a thread on multiple occasions. So many people at the firm show zero regard for peoples' personal lives. On multiple accounts, I have had OOO replies disregarded or have been contacted well outside of normal working hours for things that were only deemed urgent for me, but not for my higher ups. During the WFH scenario throughout the pandemic, I have had higher ups say in one breath to prioritize my personal time but once they needed something from me, all of that was out the window. I have busted my butt for some teams where "thank you's" are seldomly received. During our week long, firm-wide summer holiday last year, I worked 4/5 work week days and was not properly compensated for that time I gave up. It sucks when your hard work goes unnoticed by some. The good people I've met at this firm are not enough to get me to stay at a place that only cares about its bottom line.