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    EY Reviews

    Updated 21 August 2018
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    Pros

    • "Work life balance for those manage their work efficiently" (in 849 reviews)

    • "Learn a lot of things, have many opportinuties to do hands-on projects" (in 320 reviews)

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    1. "Great place to work (hard)"

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      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Manager in Bristol, England
      Current Employee - Manager in Bristol, England
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at EY full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Great leadership and culture. Very flexible and positive towards empowering women

      Cons

      Some long hours. Always too much to do not enough time.

      Advice to Management

      For those that seek time and work life balance as rewards for good work, offer alternatives to promotions and more responsibility.

    2. "One of the best places to learn and network"

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      Former Employee - Senior Consultant in London, England
      Former Employee - Senior Consultant in London, England
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at EY full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      - Steep learning curve where every project is different from other
      - Peers are from esteemed colleges giving you an opportunity to learn from each other
      - Systematic approach to problem solving. This will help in one's professional life.

      Cons

      - Travel. For those preferring desk based jobs, this may not be the place to work.

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    3. "Great place to start your career"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in London, England
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in London, England
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook

      I worked at EY full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Job experience and learning curve is unparalleled to industry work. What you learn in 2 years at EY will take 5+ years in the industry. Work is challenging yet rewarding.

      Cons

      Hours can be long at times

    4. "Assurance Associate"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at EY full-time

      Pros

      Work life balance, competitive salary

      Cons

      Long hours but very good overalll

    5. Helpful (1)

      "Great company to work for. Management is awesome"

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      Former Employee - Project Manager in Glasgow, Scotland
      Former Employee - Project Manager in Glasgow, Scotland
      Recommends
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at EY full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Great salary bonuses and benefits. My favourite was a subsidised company car (Salary Sacrifice) and great health care. There's also a fair process to get a promotion (rank), get another job within the company or relocate to another city or even country.

      Cons

      Since 2014 they have a tendency to replace everyone in the UK with people in Poland, Argentina and the Philippines.

      Advice to Management

      Stop relocating your staff in third world countries! You have already seen that you don't get the same quality of work! You're making the wrong decisions.

    6. "Good"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at EY full-time

      Pros

      Best is the people and connections you make

      Cons

      worst is the hours and boring work

    7. Helpful (1)

      "Amazing company with great people"

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      Former Employee - Senior Manager in London, England
      Former Employee - Senior Manager in London, England
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at EY full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      The people and culture are great. I left a few years ago and I still tell people “that’s what consultants should work like” and “yes I’d recommend you use them”.

      Training was good, career development opportunities were great, varied and interesting projects.

      Cons

      Travel. (It’s a consultancy, that goes with the turf)

      Selling. As it’s a partnership, you need to be a salesperson to hit the top ranks - there’s a glass ceiling for technical experts. The ceiling is pretty high, but I left because I knew I would likely never make partner due to being a more techie resource and wanting to stay that way.

      If you’re currently technical and understand the need to move towards more client engagement and sales activity... they will support you and help you make that jump!

      Advice to Management

      Ensure you introduce selling, research, and market making at earlier stages in career progression. Since I left I’ve started to love that stuff - oh the irony!

    8. "Opportunities"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at EY full-time

      Pros

      Large enough to create your own opportunities

      Cons

      Bonuses (dependent on business are) are a rarity.

    9. Helpful (1)

      "EY culture, people and projects"

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      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Consultant in London, England
      Current Employee - Consultant in London, England
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at EY full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      People and culture
      Career Support
      Charity days

      Cons

      Projects are insanely bad.

      Advice to Management

      Your staff turn over is shockingly high. Have a look to see how you can improve it. People won’t stay if you don’t listen to them enough.

    10. "Good team and good work"

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      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Senior Consultant in London, England
      Current Employee - Senior Consultant in London, England
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at EY full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      - High profile engagements with interesting clients
       - Opportunites to get involved in lots of side of desk work
       - Great training and training resources

      Cons

      - Salary / bonus pay is below industry unless you're a director / AP / P
       - Work life balance is often challenging
       - High turnover

      Advice to Management

      - Better compensation through improve incentive scheme

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