I am not an EY employee. I worked with EY folks who worked with customers and my company doing different types of cybersecurity efforts. i worked with about 11 people at all levels split among three teams. It was among the worst experiences I've ever had in my life working with any type of professionals from any type of industry.
Team One - Arrogant, constantly just not sure what they were doing. All over the map. Groveling so hard for customer love. Acted like children when I would just say what I felt about certain efforts. Tried many times to undermind me, spoke to me like older brothers or sisters. Skill levels were drastically low. I almost felt like they had never actually done the real cyber work.
Team Two - Lazy. Whole team was confused. They were literally just making it up as they went along. They were putting togetheer data metrics as if they were putting together a puzzle. One girl's job was literally to just add a bunch of numbers she had no idea what they meant, but they had to equal some figure or "they cannot present". She had no honest answer until she actually said, "I have no idea why we are even presenting this data". The one analyst was masquerading as some cybersecurity analyst. The skills he had you could've gotten in a weekend with Udemy. He was constantly unsure of himself. Constantly "ummmmmm". Leader of the squad was a paper champion, had very little strength to discuss anything. Again, another pathetic loser groveling to the customer for more biz. She would have washed their cars if they asked. Totally clueless. Their director....a pyschopath and pathetic person. Comes on shouting "we are going to lose the customer" first time I met him. I actually laughed on zoom. Sorry loser. I dont even know you.
Team One - The absolute worst. Lead by two guys from the middle of the country. Total paper champions. In about 5-6 mos I realized they were a complete waste, couldn't manage a trip to the bathroom, literally took all my answers and work as their own, total clowns, couldn't answer questions, absolutely never had hands on keyboard. Overall just two dirtbags playing like family men who care about people. One guy looked like he hadn't been out since 1991. My weak company never backed me up so I finally went lone wolf and constantly caught them in their BS and lies and then the last few customer meetings....their ppt slides are 99% info from me except for the "EY" tagged on it. I left the company to never look back. These two guys, again, groveling to the customer to get work.....more work on top of work they literally had no resource on except to be the secretary and no power over the true vendor to speed up.
I don't know what is going on at EY, but I have to believe there are people there that can actually do the work. Like people that actually didn't just get book knowledge, pass a test and get some manager job.
I came away hating my job and finally quit. I said I didn't get hired to be EY's b**ch. The funniest thing is, what took them 12 mos to get up and going, took me 6 mos to figure they had succeeded in nothing.
I hope they read this and realize who they are. You're frauds and fakes. You're stealing money and you should be ashamed. You are not project managers. Heck, you're not even consultants. My last advice. Be very careful who you try and push around. Be very careful. These guys talked tough on screen and I know couldn't fight their way out of paper bags. So a word to the wise. Respect everyone.