Ernst & Young LLP
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EY is one of the prestigious Big 4 accounting firms. It offers endless career development opportunities, including coaching, mentoring, training, web-based learning, and experience working with multinational clients. DE&I are core to EY’s DNA. EY is extremely transparent about its diversity goals and progress, and has been named a best employer for diversity.
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One of the prestigious Big 4 professional services firms, EY is ideally looking for intelligent, motivated, hardworking candidates with strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills. For students, the firm runs valuable internship programs during the summer and winter months. Interns get hands-on experience and access to many networking opportunities; interns during the winter months also get an accurate look at what the busy tax season is like. Meanwhile, career development, training, mentoring, and learning opportunities for full-time professionals are extensive, and promotion paths are clear.
Although hours can be long and deadlines plentiful during the busy season, a good work/life balance can be achieved. The firm offers an unlimited vacation policy an...
About the Company
Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) is a member firm of Big 4 accounting legend EY, a global organization of member firms. EY US provides consulting, assurance, tax, and strategy and transactions services. Its industry specializations include consumer products; financial services (asset management, banking and capital markets, private equity, and insurance); real estate (construction and hospitality and leisure); life sciences (biotechnology, medical technology, and pharmaceutical); media and entertainment; mining and metals; technology; automotive; telecommunications; oil and gas; power and utilities; cleantech; government and public sector; provider care; retail and wholesale; and support of entrepreneurial businesses. EY has ranked on Great Place to Work and Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For list for 27 consecutive years. In 2025, EY ranked ...
Employee Reviews
- “It's a tough job at times. Deadlines can be fluid, and we’re in the business of client service. Sometimes, that means accelerating deadlines and work, which can mean more hours in condensed time frames. However, the firm currently has an unlimited vacation policy and numerous firm holidays. I’ve never had an issue taking that unlimited vacation around my filing deadlines, and as long as you work hard, the firm is happy to give you time off to recharge. The flexibility of being able to work from home ...
- “It's a tough job at times. Deadlines can be fluid, and we’re in the business of client service. Sometimes, that means accelerating deadlines and work, which can mean more hours in condensed time frames. However, the firm currently has an unlimited vacation policy and numerous firm holidays. I’ve never had an issue taking that unlimited vacation around my filing deadlines, and as long as you work hard, the firm is happy to give you time off to recharge. The flexibility of being able to work from home a couple of days a week is great too.”
- “The firm does promote quality of life, but it’s often difficult to maintain based on the necessary time and efforts to complete procedures timely, based on both internal and external deadlines. The vacation policy is great, and as long as you plan in advance, it’s usually flexible. However, you have to be very strategic about when to take vacation; each year it seems like deadlines move, making it harder and harder to plan accordingly.”
- “Best part is the flexible WFH/hybrid policy. You can generally work from home or the office based on your needs. Most challenging part is the increased number of deadlines and fewer people, making it seem like it’s busy season year-round, which makes it hard to take vacation.”
- “You can have an excellent work/life balance and an associated quality of life if you’re proactive and an average or above-average performer. Sometimes, I see younger members of the firm struggle to find a balance, either because they underperform and therefore take longer than average to complete work or, more frequently, simply don't understand how to create boundaries and communicate needs.”
Getting Hired Here
- “The ideal candidate has strong critical thinking skills, a desire to ask questions and learn, and is committed to working as part of a larger engagement team.”
- “The firm uses an application, virtual interview, and two live interviews when recruiting candidates. I think the ideal candidate is someone who is intelligent, uses critical thinking skills, is a problem solver, and is able to get along with a wide variety of people.”
- “EY has a very strong interview and c...
- “The ideal candidate has strong critical thinking skills, a desire to ask questions and learn, and is committed to working as part of a larger engagement team.”
- “The firm uses an application, virtual interview, and two live interviews when recruiting candidates. I think the ideal candidate is someone who is intelligent, uses critical thinking skills, is a problem solver, and is able to get along with a wide variety of people.”
- “EY has a very strong interview and callback process and moves very quickly on good candidates. Our recruiting team is very strong and quite active on all college campuses in my local area. The ideal candidate is a go-getter, cares about the quality of their work and strives for excellence in all that they do, is self-aware enough to recognize when they need help and humble enough to ask for it and wants to work hard and continue to grow as a tax professional.”
- “Looking for dedicated, hard workers willing to put in time and effort to learning technology and processes. Tax technical knowledge will come with time and is not expected of an entry-level new hire.”
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