EY Reviews

3.6

70% would recommend to a friend

(84,089 total reviews)
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Janet Truncale

80% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

EY has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 84,089 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The EY employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Jul 5, 2019
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Pros

Very nice colleagues (other than more than a few arrogant Partners), physical office space is modern, global firm so transfers to other locations are possible

Cons

The workloads are insane & I am not a lazy person. This applies to junior admin, Exec Assts, and managers. Seeing people at their desks from 8 am - 10 pm is not uncommon. Spent just over 3 years there and took an actual lunchbreak maybe 30% of the time. I rarely left before 7 pm so 11 hr days were common. They have a model of piling up to 5 demanding Partners on one Exec Asst and it is horrendous. I was involved in hiring & had to leave the firm due to my conscience bothering me; seeing bright & ultra-capable people accept the job and then be burned out and mentally exhausted 3 months in was hard to take. The Director of my former department knows darn well they need to overall the working model but ... doubt it will happen. There are far better places to go if you are bright & capable. It will sound like a great place in the interview process but ... just don’t. It baffles me they can boast of work / life balance when a huge percentage of staff are pulling insane overtime year round. There is no “slow season” despite what they say. Was grateful to have a job & income but in over 20 yrs, easily the most draining & toxic environment I have worked in. 99% of my peers left either before me or soon after; we were all part of the same hiring wave ... about 20 of us.

2.0
May 2, 2017
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Pros

-good place to start your career, so get the name on your resume, and move on to a much better job -good learning opportunity -mostly, no micro management when running a desk -good networking opportunities

Cons

-some of the partners very nice, some have an ego the size of a planet. Really depends on service line and pure luck - nobody listens to the admin staff re: anything. It's pretty clear we are regarded as second class citizens. Partners have all the power. -Pay is below market standard, and outright laughable for the amount of responsibility and work -lots of politics -nepotism -cold and impersonal atmosphere, it seems people only start acknowledging you if you somehow survived your first year -support staff excluded from service line events consistently, as if we don't work with everybody on a daily basis... therefore, we are not invited to baby showers, socials etc. this is quite insulting and demoralizing. God forbid we are in the same room at the same time, the horror! Did not realize I was in a time warp, and back in a feudal system. -can be pretty boring work sometimes, lots of stress and high expectations, with no reward whatsoever.

1.0
Jul 30, 2014
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Pros

There were great benefits for Egan employees which were associated with working at EY.

Cons

Poor training. Low pay. Unreasonable expectations. Disorganized management by the lawyers. Lack of recognition. Extremely high turnover. This is why there are always job postings at Egan LLP. The lawyers at Egan will not hesitate to replace their support staff with a new employee for lower pay. Lack of interest in the professional development of their clerks and support staff. Clerks and other support staff were consistently overworked. Managing lawyers were reluctant to pay for overtime hours, unless they exceeded 50 hours. Managing lawyers used subtle threats to increase competition and to influence clerks to put in long hours. The HR department in this company does not care about its employees, and did not effectively address the issues that were brought up by the support staff.

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