EY Associate Analyst reviews

Team leads tend to micro manage obsessively, cannot work a full day without anxiety due to being reached out to constantly. Work life balance is not consistent. Communication is like playing telephone. Learning requirements on top of full time work. Not paid enough for all this

Terrible promotion structures. Once you're hired into the firm, you're staffed on an engagement and even if you excel and are promoted on your engagement, your EY ranking doesn't change until you're up for promotion, which happens realistically once a year. So, now you're even more underpaid but have more responsibility and work to do on your engagement. EY holidays are not promised holidays either. If for whatever reason you're staffed on a demanding engagement, you're most likely working 45-50 hour work weeks and are at risk of losing your holiday because the management team will blame you for being "underproductive" that month. In reality, the firm signs terrible contracts with their clients, overworking employees and punishing them when productivity falls short of their expectation. EY underpays and overworks their employees, and although the benefits are incredible, you'll have better luck working for another big 4 that actually knows how to make a good deal with their clients.