Currently in industry making 85K (3YOE) and about to be promoted which should get me to low 90K’s base. I love my team and have pretty reasonable WLB. Received an offer for EY SC for 125K. Pretty sure I’d hate myself for leaving if I took the EY offer because of the change in WLB, but the comp is hard to say no to - Any guidance from folks who’ve had similar situations and took one route or the other?

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If the promotion raise is to 95k, still a 30+% bump if you jump…

My uneducated opinion of EY WLB is that it’s pretty good relative to other consulting firms, but as always, project dependent

FWIW, I say go!

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I really like being at EY. Everyone's experience is different but I've experienced really good things. The pay is good, the work is good, unlimited vacation, 19 firm holidays (this one is really my favourite), fitness reimbursement etc.

I am leaving in a month to go to MBB but trust me, leaving EY was a hard choice! You'll like it here. If nothing, you can always go back to your original company!

If you don't try it, you'll never know :)

Good luck!!

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No.. it's a firm wide thing where they will reimburse 75% of fitness related purchases ranging from gym memberships to meal kit delivery services upto $1000 a year. Kicker is - your reimbursement gets taxed so you only get 50% money back. Still not bad!

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EY isn't too bad ... I used to work there for 5 years

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WLB obviously varies by project / domain but I don’t think it’s too bad. I’ve had a few week stretches where I work super super late, but I’ve also had a few week stretches where I’m closing my laptop by 4 or 5pm. Make sure you set your boundaries with internal initiatives. I think you should also consider who EY audits and your investing portfolio as the independence guidelines are pretty annoying even if you don’t work in any sort of accounting.

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^^ but keep in mind this is for a lot of consulting firms

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EY will give you good experience, take it. If you don’t like, you can go back at higher salary. I have couple of companies twice in my resume..

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What practice?

Chicago - would likely be doing GBS / org transformation work. How is the leadership within the group?

What’s the offering first? TD&E?

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