EY reviews

-underpaid -overworked -reviews are a joke as are raises and bonuses unless you are above a Manager in rank -if you are a staff or senior you are basically everyone's slaves -as someone with a very specialized knowledge in the industry for 5 years I was forced to do any job to make them money. I was stuck making power points, taking meeting notes and being an adult babysitter in my late 20's - this is intern level work. -They don't care about your career they just want their money -reviews are based on your "counselor" going in front of a panel and basically trying to convince everyone how awesome you are. Good luck if you get a counselor that 1. Doesn't like you 2. Can't make Time for you or 3. Is a passive person -you do NOT own your career regardless of what everyone says -benefits suck -retention is terrible - in my practice over 35% left within 2 years...and management could care less. We are all just warm bodies to them

1. Leftover audit : It's not really Audit, so stop calling it that .. it's audit support, which basically means that you do the worst section of the audit which the americans and europeans are too lazy to do. 2. Lack of Training : They claim to be auditing US clients but never bother training anyone in US GAAP or IFRS. 3. Inactive management : The management, and by management I mean audit managers to directors never get involved in the actual audit. All they do is monitor Budgeted hours v/s actual hours (the famous B2A) and ofcourse go on fancy trips abroad to get more hours ( Oh yes ! the almighty hours, thats all the senior management care about). Serious word of advice, GET TECHNICAL .. you don't have a right to call yourself a manager just as much as we don't have the right to call ourselves audit seniors. 4. The work is primarily get done through Staffs ... the work of an audit senior is just to review and send across to the US counterparts. Neither the staffs nor the senior is involved in audit planning or get any kind of client interaction. The only thing they get is a mail from the onshore saying this is what we want you to do and here's how you do (Instruction based work) 5. Very little exposure to any kind of GAAPs, including indian accounting standards. One year in this place and you will definitely forget your golden rules, let alone accounting standards. 6. The title of this section explains exactly what EY GSS actually does to an Indian Chartered accountant or a US CPA ... "CONS" .. This is not really audit, so stop giving that picture when you hire CAs .. be honest there are lot of desperate CAs out there who would do this kind of a job in exchange of good money (Luckily I wasn't one of them) 7. Horrible coffee !! 8. Somehow Accent precedes technical knowledge in this place (Go figure!) 9. A lot of unwanted politics between qualified & non-qualified Seniors ... Oh yes! they do have a concept of non-qualified seniors .. although some of them are quite strong technically, however most of them are guys who just got there by Li cking the right places of the right people. If you lick hard enough, you may even become an Assistant Manager someday and be there for the rest of your life !! 10. Poor rotation policy to both india and abroad .