Ernst & Young Reviews

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

Pros – - Good working environment
- Challenging opportunities available
- Good opportunities for promotion
- Great co-workers

Cons – - Salary at senior/manager levels not competitive as industry
- Can be overly rigid in terms of rules and decision making, as well as salary and promotions
- Long hours

Advice to Senior Management – Examine who your key talent is and reward them appropriately. Though the rigid salary scale and promotion structure can have its benefits, it can alienate your top performers.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Ernst & Young full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – the firm provides great training, good career development, salary progress fairly quickly. hard work but well worth it. opportunities working with dynamic teams and high caliber people and clients.

Cons – work hours are long during busy season. lack of flexibility during busy season. expectation and responsibility jump with every year of experience added. it is like a tread mill where there is no stop until you get off

Advice to Senior Management – do not out source the junior work. you need to attract the best students out of school and give them proper training via junior years

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Decent Pay, good benefits, healthy atmosphere. They are very supportive if you would like to expand your schooling

Cons – Little room for growth within Support Services unfortunately.

Advice to Senior Management – Better pay for support staff is needed

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Ernst & Young full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Corporate culture is very supportive of its employees

Cons – Work life balance is not what I expected it to be - especially when I compare it with friends who work in industry.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't just talk work life balance, lead by example and do the work life balance.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Ernst & Young

Pros – Great place to learn
Mentors are excellent
career progression
networking

Cons – Free coffee and snack ;-)

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Ernst & Young full-time

Pros – The company does an excellent job at building a great corporate atmosphere. Coworkers and peers were wonderful. Their 'no ego' rule broke down barriers between partners and staff. Great opportunities to build professional experience and networking.

Cons – The hours are long (very long), especially considering their standard low starting pay. There are rules to promotions and pay increases that can sometimes be bent, but that can sometimes be rigid (ie 2 years to get promoted). Because of the long hours, work/life balance often suffers.

Advice to Senior Management – Starting pay should be increased in order to maintain and attract talent

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

Pros – great people culture, encourages flex work and support creative and innovative minds

Cons – Work hours can be daunting as expeted

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – This review actually predates the spinoff of its consulting business into CAP Gemini, so a lot has changed. Unfortunately, Glassdoor doesn't have a "pre-2009" option.

* Good knowledge management support, the firm really worked at this
* Open to experimentation and staying with new trends, in pockets
* Unusual efforts to marry industry knowledge with the accounting & audit segment

Cons – * The usual in the industry re: little work/life balance, large turnover.

* Inconsistent management. It amazed me that a senior manager could consistently blow projects, and have terrible relationships with staff, without consequences. This phenomenon seems to be prevalent in the consulting industry, and it would be really interesting to see some studies as to why.

* With some institutional (KM, some IT) and personal exceptions, support functions often demonstrated poor performance.

Advice to Senior Management – This is industry-wide, not firm-specific. I suspect you could get a Pareto payoff by thinking hard about how to identify toxic managers/ principals quickly, and remove them before damage is done to staff or client relationships. The people who are a nightmare to staff are going to cause problems with clients, one way or the other. Lose them fast.

On the back end, a bit of attention could really pay off. This isn't revenue-producing, so professional service firms don't assign their good managers to it, but poor performance sub-optimizes your highly-paid talent. Why not make a point of hiring some professional career track managers from outside? Pick those with a record of making a difference and being near the cutting edge, and give them the support necessary to make these functions good.

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

Pros – Lost of opportunity to travel and work on multiple accounts

Cons – Work schedule and frequency of travel

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Ernst & Young

Pros – Flexibility, people, quality of work

Cons – Hard to think of cons for EY.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep it up