What is the hiring process like at EY?

The best audit firm to get excellent work experience

The hiring process takes some time

Working for a known brand but other than that, there is nothing really.

I still find my work experience in this firm "bizarre" in a bad way because of the kind of people I met during my tenure, starting to my recruiter, colleagues/peers, seniors, my supposed "counselor" up to my Offerings Partner (Leader). This made me conclude that this is the worst among the so-called "Big 4" in terms of culture, talent, global mobility (this is ironic given that they have a Global Mobility Team), and work-life balance (or the lack of it). The talent team is only nice to you during the recruitment process but as soon as you get onboarded, you will never hear them again. The onboarding process is so transactional it feels like an admin activity that need to be ticked on a checklist. As an expat, the Talent Team and the Talent Partner don't seem to know immigration process of countries where they recruit. That put me under considerable risk. As an experienced consultant, I know the “plug and play” culture of consulting but this only works if there is effective onboarding process in place and sufficient integration period especially for non-locals. This is not the case as their only concern is to put people to projects because they’re scrambling for lack of resources. I had no meaningful interaction with my peers. It took my counselor and supposed "buddy" one (1) week before they reach out and check in on me. Under pressure, there are even instances where my ”counselor" would resort to micromanaging and corporate bullying. Being staff in a project, you can truly feel that you are only a breathing resource with your seniors having no concern whatsoever to your wellbeing or development. Worse, they will put the blame to you if anything mess up in the engagement THEY sold to the client. They are willing to throw you under the bus so they will look good. In wellbeing, the leaders in my Service Line are too focused in business development that all the talks about work-life balance are really just lip service not manifested by tangible activities that address toxic work habits or promote healthy “working lives”. Working on weekends, holidays, and late night meetings are the norms. Sadly, a lot of freshers are the most affected because they would sacrifice their energies and wellbeing just to deliver. Whilst more and more companies now invest in conducive workplace management with proper social distancing in light of COVID, this firm would not invest in such resource. The office environment resembles that of HASIL offices I've been to.

The recruitment process is smooth and the team is incredibly human.

I would love to come up with some cons but don't find any.

Work life balance Employee friendly Bonus Growth Yearly bonus

Hybrid working model Slow hiring process Background verification delay Bonus Increment

Good for freshers but depends on the team

Interview process and process leading upto issuance of offer letter is so long without zero comms in between leaving the candidates high and dry.

flexible with remote working, decent pay, nice office, helpful staff, fair interview process

boring work, drinking culture, time wasted at seminars

If you keep your head down and grind out calls, you won’t get bothered directly by management. However, you’ll still get the obnoxious emails management sends to everyone to prod them into taking more calls.

Awful, backwards management style by out of touch leadership. They take advantage of the suck ups who try to overachieve by volunteering them for more work and squeeze as much as they can out of them while delaying raises and direct employment for years. It’s honestly sad to watch. They run a hunger games system where they promote, at most, 2 people a year to direct employment while the rest are stuck as contractors with mediocre pay, crappy benefits, no job security, zero PTO, worse health insurance than marketplace, and a small 401k match from the contractor company that needs 3 years to vest. That means if you even go from contractor to full employee before those 3 years, you lose some of your match, as you are technically leaving the contractor company who employs you. Good thing you’ll probably get strung along for more than 3 years anyway. Just know the management will lie through their teeth about how often they hire to full employee and offer raises and promotions. Every single thing they promised turned out to be a lie that they would try to quietly sweep under the rug. Entire hiring classes are cut in half months after they are brought on due to the aggressive turnover caused by the lies and deception of management, and contractors simply fall off the face of the earth in handfuls over time. Further, they don’t tell you that 90-95% of your calls are just basic tech support or reading off the same process to help people raid their retirement after leaving their job. You are a glorified customer service rep who does financial planning a tiny fraction of the time. Of course, you don’t learn this until you get through training and all your calls are boomers who locked themselves out for the 5th time this month. If you want to be smart in this role, just coast, hit medium call statistics, get a paycheck, and angle for something better. The vast majority of full employees have mastered this, and you can tell it in their attitude. Just keep that head down and get your check.

Good culture and nice people.

Almost no one goes in office. Also promised everyone to hear back about offers within 2 weeks and many still haven't heard (4+ months). Overall entire exit process was very unprofessional and they are hurting, hence lack of offers going out.

I’ve applied to many companies, but this was by far the most pleasant recruitment process. The HR team is incredibly caring and attentive, they followed up via phone for every little thing I needed, which made me feel truly valued. During the interview, the Users were very relaxed and friendly. They weren't intimidating at all and smiled a lot, which helped me stay calm and confident. Process: Assessment -> Interview (HR & User) -> Background Check -> Talent Partner Approval.

None, I don't see anything labeled as cons

Clear smooth recruitment process, great training programs for upskilling

Should know where to draw the line so you are not overworked