Ernst & Young Reviews

Pros

Ernst & Young is a great place to begin one's career. It has a diversified client base and a large amount of resources and support.

Cons

The hours could be long for certain departments. The salary and benefits package is on the lower side compared to peers.

Advice to Senior Management

The firm should consider giving more incentive to employees as well as recognize hard work monetarily (i.e. better raises).

Pros

1. Technical work
2. Quality of colleagues

Cons

1. Lack of transparency from mgmt
2. Delayed communication

Advice to Senior Management

1. Improve the timeliness and transparency of communication

Pros

Ernst & Young is the leader among the Big Four firms in the middle est and is the defacto choice for building a career among finance and accountancy graduates

Cons

Commitments on your time during the busy season tests your ability to prioritise things happening in your life outside work.

Advice to Senior Management

Support staff in terms of gaining additional qualifications in terms of time by inducting more staff so the burden during peak season is even throughout

Pros

It is good to learn and grow fastly.

Cons

The only downside is that you have to work very ahrd and thus work life balance is difficult to balance

Advice to Senior Management

Leadsereship is good and working fine.

Pros

Growth opportunity, talented and sharp team members with great individual experience. Growing TAS practice, making some great strides.

Cons

Long hours and time away from family.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the momentum

Pros

Personal development opportunities are endless. Management and company culture really geared towards personal development and people first. Experience gained is significant. Project opportunities uncommon for peer group at other companies.

Cons

Work life balance is very unpredictable. Travel schedule and project assignment is normally out of your hands. Local management attempts to be flexible given personal circumstances, but only so much they can do based on regional utilization requirements.

Advice to Senior Management

Please continue down the path of Benefits and Master Plan transparency. This area has really improved over the past 2 years, and I would like to continue seeing the positive tone at the top and the respective effort.

Pros

if you wanna get a big challenge.

Cons

horrible over time work in china, over 80 hr per week, sometimes you don't get fully paid for your over time work.

Advice to Senior Management

respect ppl, respect what they can offer.

Pros

Flexibility, Awards for Performance, Diverse clients

Cons

Work can be very self-driven, not always given a lot of guidance on projects

Pros

Multitalented professional with multitasking capabilities. Lots of leaders at young age and good working environment. Fast career advancement as a stepping stone to jump to business.

Cons

Unpredictable working hours, multitasking between pursuit and delivery, sometime assigned two or more assignment simultaneously. Must be able to learn quick even area of no expertise.

Advice to Senior Management

Foster leadership development of staff and managers. Invest in training either overseas or inbound. Increase cross-border assignment between area to exchange expertise with other EY offices

Pros

-Subject matter expertise of co-workers
-Inclusiveness and collaboration
-Opportunities to work on federal policy formation and implementation

Cons

-Little to no appreciation for good work
-FSO cut-off from the rest of EY

Advice to Senior Management

While focusing on firm growth, also look at satisfaction of its employees. While on one hand there seems to be a strong 'people' focus, that does not seem demonstrated by actions of the middle management.