EY reviews

Not sure. I was hired on the spot, and stayed for one year as tax staff. The office, pre pandemic, was already empty. No team work, no collaboration. If you have a question, nobody knows the answer, including the managers. That's because the number crunching and core operations are done in India. The NY office is just for client relations and sales pitches to potential clients. For a whole year I had 0 billable hours. Extremely well paid year-long vacation that allowed me to buy a house and pay off my student loans. Other than that, it is a very slow and sleepy environment. I showed up everyday to work, and was asked to go back home since there were no projects to do. It's been like that since the first day at EY. Once I paid off my loans etc, I gave two weeks notice and partner got offended and asked me to leave sooner. Very weird place. The tax dept is empty and slow. Jobs are outsourced and on my last week at the firm, a new office in Calcutta was established to take more tax work. Slight sexism: Female staff is in charge of organizing happy hours and social events for the tax office, while the male staff does the technical accounting/finance work across departments at EY.

1. They heavily advertise machine learning/data science capabilities but the firm is just not there yet. The job descriptions can be enticing with core technical responsibilities listed but the actual day-to-day work may not even be close. Classic data scientist's expectation vs reality disappointment. 2. They advertise being cognizant about the environmental impact of traveling in consulting industry. But, project teams require you to make totally unnecessary and avoidable air travels, with the excuse that they still have budget to spend on air and hotel tickets. 3. Be great at showy/shiny powerpoints otherwise you are frowned upon. Presentation is literally everything they care about. 4. Requests for flexible work environment and meaningful work that can advance technical careers go completely unhindered. Leadership only cares about making their practice profitable, No matter what happens to an individual's careers. 5. Everyone is in a rat race of becoming a manager. So individual career aspirations (w.r.t technical skill set) take a back seat and all you are expected to do is network, be well-known in your practice and work towards being a manager. 6. There are some great people but unfortunately I only got to work with toxic people who micromanage, gossip every second, pass detrimental comments and create utterly toxic work environment. 7. This is not a tech firm. No best practices or quality data products being developed. No real data science guidance or oversight available. There is an elite group in D&A practice doing advanced analytics work. Everyone else is at a disadvantage from data science perspective. Data Scientists beware - before joining, confirm that you are actually going to do the work mentioned in the job description.