Ernst & Young Reviews in New York City, NY Area

Pros

The people, the people, the people! I have the opportunity to work with dynamic, smart, funny, interesting people on a daily basis.

Cons

Work life balance is a struggle and you have to work very hard at it to make it work. Although there seems to be a shift and upper management focus on promoting better work life balance....will keep you posted.

Pros

Learning Opportunities inside and outside the company
Good Work Life Balance if working with the right team
Great people and some mediocre people
Interesting projects to work on
Occasional travel

Cons

Big Company issues
Top Heavy Managment structure which provides little incentive if you are a super-star
Average Pay compared other opportunities
Big 4 Issues with compliance, stock ownership, etc.
Doing your own taxes at these places sucks due to working in different states

Advice to Senior Management

Find a way to make your teams more entrepreneurial while minimizing overhead. Find your super-stars and get them to the top quickly, because everyone else steals them.

Pros

size of potential client base

Cons

big culture with signficant amount of office politics

Advice to Senior Management

Treat employees / people with respect, not like they are "the help."

Pros

Continuous learning, great salary and firm is well recognized.

Cons

Hours and travel are exceedingly high
Work most weekends

Pros

Great place to start right out of college if not getting into high profile IBs or Consulting places.
Decent work life balance depending on individual situation.

Cons

The fun dies out after 1-2 years when pay comes in question.
Political system of performance reviews which is more often skewed.

Advice to Senior Management

Start people paying more for the hard hours worked and be innovative from other Big 4 in terms of employee satisfaction. Also, make CEO more approachable. Didn't even see the CEO once in two years there.

Pros

-Opportunity to work in a nearly infinite number of settings, types of engagements, etc.
-People care about your experiences and professional growth

Cons

-Review process is well thought-out, but consistency is rarely achieved across reviewers
-Majority of employees that I've worked with are ultra-competitive and work themselves way too hard

Advice to Senior Management

-Culture at the firm in certain practices and locations seems to make people work themselves too hard and ultimately, get burnt out

Pros

Many clients, many managers, different work environments.

Cons

Work life balance, poor. Too many clients, too many hours, focus on utulization and sales. Salary ok, not great.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on work life balance. Pay properly.

Pros

good exposure to f&a issues with top clients. great brand recognition worldwide. very good health insurance, LTC, STC and life insurance benefits.

Cons

at the time the advisory practice lacked a well defined structure. driven to achieve high utilization numbers a consultant might get derailed from his career goals.

Pros

Big 4 name recogintion and experience

Cons

You are there for the partners not to grow your career at E&Y

Pros

Good work / life balance. Great flexibility.. I was able to work from home 4/5 days. Wonderful employees, and lots of opportunities for development.

Cons

Way too much red tape, very beauracratic. Matrixed organization makes it difficult to exact any real change. Senior leaders talk a good game, but hesitate to share any valuable information in a timely manner.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the opportunities for development. Reduce the red tape and process-heavy culture, and focus on innovation more than having a policy in place for every idea that comes along.