EY Employee Reviews

Long hours, but definitely the best learning opportunity when you start your career. The tech resources are also a major advantage of working at the firm.

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Great working culture

Human Resources Intern (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 3 June 2023

The company provides ample opportunities for employees to enhance their skills and knowledge through regular training programs, workshops, and seminars. It was evident that the company truly cared about the holistic growth of its workforce, offering mentorship programs and career progression plans to nurture talent from within.

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Based on 83 survey responses

What people like

Ability to learn new things
Feeling of personal appreciation
Inclusive work environment

Good for career growth, not well organized, poor work-life balance

Senior Manager (Current Employee) - Toronto, ON - 31 May 2023

I moved up the ranks within the firm and can certainly say it's the best place to be if you're looking for quick career growth. The Canadian firm is not too organized and a lot of times we lack guidance, but it also allows you a lot of opportunities for business development. Work-life balance is what you'd expect from any Big 4 companies.

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Co-op Interview

External Auditor (Former Employee) - Waterloo, ON - 24 May 2023

Was so stressed before my interview, but they're truly lovely people. More of a conversation rather than an interview. They want to get to actually know you.

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It was a good experience.

Senior Account Executive (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 15 May 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?Excellent organisation with a pristine reputation and gimbal reach. What is the most stressful part about working at the company?It is very large indeed, internal controls and bureaucracy can be a challenge. Compartmented in four big silos where by the botheration is far from seamless because of conflict of interest problems. What is the work environment and culture like at the company?Nice. Lots of young people working hard and the physical environment is nice and professional.

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Senior Consultant (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 8 May 2023

The management is not interested in your career advancement. Projects given are sometime not aligned to your skillset. Managers do not have your back.

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Stressful and low comp

Senior Accountant (Former Employee) - Canada - 6 April 2023

Was fun before Covid until it wasn't. Very low compensation , not even close to the market. You do learn a lot and previously there were amazing people but things go downhill when you don't value your people.

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Good place to work

Senior Manager (Current Employee) - Toronto, ON - 27 March 2023

Good place to work, but lots of restrictions due to tech audit clients. Lots of noise and lack of focus at the moment due to potential audit/consulting split

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Global firm

Tax Manager (Former Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 26 March 2023

Lots of work opportunities available. Take your career where you want. Many endevours to learn new technologies all the time as digital world evolves.

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Problem with promotion system

Senior Accountant (Former Employee) - Toronto - 23 March 2023

In the audit world, leadership is important, probably critical. Therefore manager level people are critical to the overall work experience. While managers that are promoted generally have high IQ's, the company needs to pay more attention to the leadership traits of employees promoted to manager. This is an under spoken topic in the firm. Employees are automatically promoted if they do well at staff/ senior, it doesn't mean they'll succeed as a manager. It's the difference between successful and unsuccessful experiences for all audit engagements and workers at the company. EY is failing here.

Pros

good development of learning, client interaction experience, good work benefits.

Cons

long hours, unpredictable working conditions.

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Decent place overall

Senior Consultant (Former Employee) - Montreal, QC - 22 March 2023

As you made it in, you are doing great already. The perks are fair and the workload usually would go heavy per anyone's expectation. Depending on the availabilities of projects you might juggle between a few in your typical week.

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Contract position

Tax assembler (contract) - TaX Department (Former Employee) - Montréal, QC - 18 March 2023

In my short time at EY my management team was very helpful and I gain a lot of valuable knowledge from working there. My coworkers were friendly and very knowledgeable

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Fun and healthy workplace

Billing Technician (Former Employee) - Canada - 15 March 2023

I loved working at EY! You are always encouraged to evolve both as a person and an employee.Supervisors are very helpful. Although work can get stressful at times, you always get support.

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Professional, friendly, great management

Accountant (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 13 March 2023

Great team building events including training off site, annual fun golf etcRecognition of employees who go beyond the call of duty or perform exceptionally well on professional tests.Nice balance of social events for teams and divisions

Cons

Long hours in many areas

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Great place to work

Manager (Former Employee) - Canada - 9 March 2023

A great place to work, I think that is the case, and in no way am I just tryping the min number of words, but i guess i could just use chat gpt for this but oh well

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Great learning experience

Senior (Current Employee) - Vancouver - 24 February 2023

Lots to learn and lots of good resources. The new office is beautiful. The hours are definitely more compared to some other fields. But that is typical of consulting

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Like all the other Big 4

Senior (Former Employee) - Toronto - 15 February 2023

Similar to all the other big 4 accounting firms. Really depends on the engagements you get and your manager. It can be a good enjoyable learning experience that you use a stepping stone or a complete waste of several years of your life that you could have spent working in industry directly instead to get your hours.

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Great growing opportunity

Analyst (Current Employee) - Toronto, ON - 19 January 2023

EY offers world class culture built on developing their workers. Although turnover can be high, the areas for growth and improvement in your career never stops.

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Great place to work

Project Manager (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 16 January 2023

Capable staff and management. Good pay and benefits, not really focused on work life balance, but ultimately an excellent experience. Manageable expectations.

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B4 Grind

Accountant (Former Employee) - Calgary, AB - 28 November 2022

Big 4 grind with none of the benefits., typical day is very stressful. You are just a cog in a big machine, be careful that you don't bite off more than you can chew.

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A Number

Tax Associate (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 20 November 2022

Looking back, felt like just a number. Partners had no interest in employees career growth. Managers afraid to praise nor vouch for employees achievements. Generally everyone is absent minded and just trying to survive.