EY reviews

Management seemed to choose favorite 'pets' regardless of the work performed. Performance rating system was just a scam to get promotions and marks were usually decided well in advance of the work being performed. No real training provided and the management seemed to bend the rules they enforced to suit themselves. Lots of empty promises that were never kept, they were very good at making excuses. Dont take any sick days because its seen as a weakness. Nepotism is alive and kicking in Ernst and Young.

E&Y has mastered the art of doublespeak. They make so many claims -- work life balance, compensation, growth, communication, interesting variety of work, "people first"...and with the voracity and redundancy by which they make the claims, you might actually believe them to be true. Unfortunately, none of it is true. Building on the Orwellian tradition doublespeak, the firm policies foster a form of Groupthink that is easily nurtured in an environment of 80-90 hour work weeks, sleep deprivation, stifling dress code, and intense competition that is in itself the result of an opaque performance rating system. Working at the firm is like sliding down the looking glass and waking up a year later like Gregor Samsa in Kafka's The Metamorphosis -- a giant insect trapped inside your cube with a diminishing personality, empty sense of self, and about a dozen legs flailing helplessly in the air, unable to escape. To those of you such as myself with a JD, go work at a law firm. You will earn at least 3 times as much. I just wish someone would have told me all of this before I signed the dotted line.