Ernst & Young Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Ernst & Young

Pros – you need the exerience to go onto next level

Cons – people retaliate and they discriminate minorities

Former Employee – worked at Ernst & Young as an intern for less than a year

Pros – The pay is awesome and you have plenty of opportunities for promotion. Management doesn't really nag you or stand over your shoulder.

Cons – Software department is clueless and the management is unprofessional and pretty shady.
They will fire you on the spot if you give them a two weeks notice and then stiff you on your last paycheck. They can't keep software developers because the working environment is focused on business majors and accountants, not computer programmers. Not very many promotions in the software field, you will have to be a business person to get anywhere.

Advice to Senior Management – Do your jobs

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Ernst & Young full-time for less than a year

Pros – There are no pros. People are backstabbing and manipulative, and the hours are horrific.

Cons – Everything about it. If you go to a job here, kiss your personal life goodbye. Managers are horrendously inept, and are quick to throw anybody under the bus when they screw up. If a Senior or Manager feels threatened by you, expect a crappy review because they will do anything to impede your advancement.

Busy season averaged 85 hours a week, and I was disciplined for leaving at 2 AM, which apparently was "too early" to go home. I was also disciplined for taking a lunch break. I'm glad I worked here for the sole reason of knowing what kind of environment I don't want to work in.

Advice to Senior Management – Change the review process. Allow staff to review their superiors.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Ernst & Young full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Big 4 training experience is requested on a lot of job specifications
Working with a lot of people of a similar age so good opportunities to make friends
Great exposure to challenging roles, always working above your level
Auditing large companies and communicating with top level staff in these clients

Cons – As mentioned above, always working above your level yet not really trained in what is required yet when anything goes wrong all responsibility falls on you
Long hours and high expectations from management
Good work is not praised enough yet small mistakes blown out of proportion
Promotion comes to those who escape the most work and get into managements good books, rarely the hardest workers or most technically skilled who are promoted as they are too busy actually working
Managers argue over staff bookings and time yet it is always the senior who suffers usually working simultaneously on several jobs at once ( up to 5 in my experience)

Former Employee – worked at Ernst & Young full-time for less than a year

Pros – It's a prestigious company that enables its resources to face dynamic cutting edge clients. By working in the Audit Sector, you have the opportunity to learn a lot.

Cons – You work 30% more than you would with any average job and get paid 30% less than other graduate oriented positions;
It sold Audit works at very low prices. You can easily guess that to keep a steady Profitability the Company had to increase its resources turnover

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Ernst & Young full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Gain variety of knowledge and experience, unbaised apprOach to all, believes is Diversity and inclusiveness... Accepts all culture wt respect

Cons – Rating policy to be made more transparent and easier to understand at all levels

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work

Former Employee – worked at Ernst & Young as an intern for more than a year

Pros – Great clients and work exposure

Cons – Work culture is very poor! People running behind timelines.

Advice to Senior Management – Decisions of top management completely dis sync with work conditions at lower level

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Ernst & Young

Pros – good exposure to great clients

Cons – salary not upto market standards

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Ernst & Young

Pros – The experience of interacting closely with client financial statements and processes can be fascinating. EY also has a strong brand name for the resume.

Cons – GULAGS. EY likes to send its people to far-away assignments (usually 3-4 hours from NY so that you stay in a hotel) in the middle of nowhere where workdays often exceed 12-14 hours 6 days a week. At these sites, you will be working twice as hard and long as those at the main clients for NO MORE GRATIFICATION. No one actually cares what you do there, as long as you sit in your windowless room and bill 70 hours a week to clients. BEWARE: if put on one of these assignments, it means HR is just waiting for your to leave the firm. They will constantly assure you that your commitment will be recognized, but they never intend to promote you any faster (if at all) or put you on a better assignment.

At the same time, the environment is so sycophantic it's surreal. No one dares criticize anything about their leaders or the firm for fear of repercussion. There is no meritocracy, just repercussion for criticism. Senior management seems to have taken this straight from Stalin's playbook.

Advice to Senior Management – I can't give senior management any credit, because Joseph Stalin invented this management style almost 80 years ago. I think they should experiment with other forms of governance besides those of the Soviet Union.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Ernst & Young

Pros – Advisory - Good exposure to big clients

Cons – Advisory - promotions and career advancements are slow

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend