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3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(84,007 total reviews)
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Janet Truncale

79% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

EY has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 84,007 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 Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Mar 9, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Good location and building facilities

Cons

Brining in industry knowledge but not adapting the culture to be compatible with those who are not life long big 4 consultants. Expectation of ridiculously long hours as the norm not the exception, don’t expect to be leaving the office earlier than 10pm on a regular basis. Absolutely full of cliques, if you aren’t in them you won’t progress. Toxic environment of people trying to push you under the bus to push themselves up the ladder. Expected to account for 100% of your time in a complex non user friendly time sheet system, yet engagement leads will intimidate you into logging minimal hours in order to show a better margin, the remainder of time is logged “unassigned” which means you are given BD work to complete, so as well as working full time on an engagement (but not logging that time) you are now working on last minute pitches with minimal direction but high expectations. The systems are a mess, no integration, high effort to do single things. Starting an engagement is literally 4 days of work filling in forms in different systems that are not linked and waiting for manual intervention from other parts of the world. Your industry experience will mean nothing, you could come in having been a division head, and you’ll be made to feel like a junior.

1.0
Dec 13, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Breakfast treats on Fridays (sometimes).

Cons

Supervisors and team leads manage using threats and intimidation. Ticket quotas justify their rapidly dwindling head count, so management pushes for more tix. 300:1 ratio means you'll work hard with little opportunity for time off. Training consists of web-based videos, nothing more.

2.0
Dec 10, 2017

Good place to start out

Recommend
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Pros

- Opportunities to work on different projects once every few months. Some very interesting wins and some not-so-exciting work - Easy access to subject matter experts and learning resources/events - Great international brand - Big bunch of peers in audit - good group of friends to take you through your early years

Cons

- Total comp packages are hardly competitive despite regular assurances from HR and dept news of revenues making huge YOY jumps (a slap in the face for the rank-and-file) - Too broad a range of backgrounds for hires, from top-class grads from great universities to people with questionable qualifications from overseas universities (and dare I say, distance-learning programs + some lame work experience) - Live with the lousy comps (at least until SM level) or leave - there are many others willing to take your place. Probably best to take this as a transitional place to a more lucrative future - Management scrimps and saves on everything employee-related - very lousy or paid pantry snacks, very difficult claims process for employee welfare expenses, partners 'encourage' bus/train to client sites, yearly bonus factors not moving despite great business improvement

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