Pros
- Depending on your team/manager, you may be allowed to work from home one day a week after 6 months. - Nice modern offices. - Pay day drinks last Friday of every month. - Social activities like tag rugby, quizzes, away days, volunteer days. - Relaxed work environment, a lot of the time you won't have any pressing work to be doing. - Opportunity for yearly promotion and pay increase. - If you like peace and quiet the office can be like a library at times. - Potential for travel depending on what engagement you get placed on. UK & Ireland travel. - Plenty of self training courses available to take for free through EY's link with Udemy.
Cons
- Starting salary is bad, much worse than local competitors. EY Belfast in particular are paid much lower than other EY offices. - EY Belfast is seen as a place for other EY offices to hand their unwanted work off to, meaning projects can be boring at times. - They may tell you they operate under "flexi-time" or flexible working in interview, however 90% of the time this isn't true. Its working 9-5 minimum with no overtime pay and no time in lieu. - Promotion very much depends on if your manager/ senior likes you personally. If you're not willing to work for free by staying for overtime when asked, you will get bad feedback, you wont be in line for promotions. - Very hierarchical outlook, there is a distinct pecking order in the office. The office can be seen as being very clique. - When you arrive you will be subjected to "on-board training", which consists of watching web seminars for a week. With little to no interaction from management. In my opinion bad start to life at EY.