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The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For: EY #25 (2020)

Posted on by Jason Bramwell

I’ll admit I was a little surprised to see EY as the highest-ranked Big 4 firm on this year’s Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list. It’s been a while since the last time that happened—2010, when EY was #44.

It’s unlikely possible to have a long and distinguished career at EY, as we mentioned yesterday. But if you do choose to leave the Black and Yellow for a cozy job in industry, make sure you get paid for all that vacation time you’ve accrued. A bunch of ex-EYers told us they are getting screwed out of a lot of money because of a new policy the firm put in place toward the end of last year (a policy that some say they knew nothing about or wasn’t communicated effectively to employees).

And while a majority of you putting in blood, sweat, and tears every day for Uncle Ernie, and not being paid what you’re worth, probably don’t care that EY was ranked so high by Fortune, EY cares. EY CARES A LOT. And it must be a slap in the face to some EY alums, who say they are getting gypped out of thousands of dollars in some instances, to be thanked by the firm for making the 2020 F100BCTWF:

Previous ranking: #34. Here’s why EY made this year’s ranking, according to Fortune:

The professional services firm jumped nine spots on the list this year. That’s because employees—45% of whom are women—are happy at EY, where 28% of job openings were filled internally in the past year and 42% of new hires were referred by employees. Health insurance for part-time employees, subsidized backup childcare, and compressed workweeks helped EY move up the list. And following a 2019 scandal over a sexist training program, EY vowed to undertake a review of all program content.

Oh right, the “sexist training program scandal.” I guess having a company pinky swear that it will no longer present a training session for women that compared their brain capacity to pancakes equates to Fortune giving them a higher ranking.

Stats of note:

  • Employees: 49,466
  • Number of job openings: 4,842 (as of February 2020)
  • Percentage of job growth: 6%
  • Number of new graduates hired: 5,471
  • Percentage of women: 44.8%
  • Percentage of minorities: 37.5%
  • Most common salaried job: Manager (client-serving position); no salary provided
  • PTO limit (days): 40
  • Number of sick days: 10

Just wait until Fortune gets wind of EY Global CEO and Chairman Carmine Di Sibio saying that EY is harder to get into than Harvard. Fortune seems to like taking EY for its word, so we’ll see EY crack the top 10 in the 2021 F100BCTWF for sure.

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Okay, a few notes:

1. For a lot of reasons, personal and professional, there’s no way I can say anything to you. – What exactly are the “personal” reasons? You can’t speak in coherent sentences? You have awful body odor? You’re actually a serial killer? As for “professional” reasons, we all know that auditors are banging auditors all over the place (SEE UPDATE BELOW), so if you’re simply saying that this can’t happen because it’s against your professional morals then fine but other people around you are getting busy and you will not.

2. I can’t believe you don’t hear that all the time. You probably do. – You’re right. She probably does hear it all the time. But not from anonymous people on the Internet.

3. I wish I could tell you and not come across as a sleaze! – You’re not “coming across,” broski. You’re already there.

This was posted in NYC (expired now) so maybe we can track this guy down and help him with his game.

UPDATE:
After reader input and discussing it with my partner in crime, it’s clear that this is a client leering at the E&Y auditor and AG and others are postulating that our Craiglist creeper is either married or in a committed relationship. If this is the “personal reasons” he spoke of, it’s far less interesting and funny than some kind of social anxiety disorder that renders him a stuttering love-sick fool. But it does begs several societal questions among them: 1) does posting a missed connection constitute cheating? or 2) do we applaud his self-control (until he gets home of course). Discuss.