I’ve worked a while in tech and worked with lots of people from partners. I’ve had lots of great experiences and helped successfully achieve great results with these partners as we worked on mutual projects. I recently started working with my first EY folks from one of the consulting groups. I don’t think I’ve come across a more condescending group of people. It’s amazing to me cause I haven’t worked with them all that long. What’s even funnier is that I’ve never seen people have more meetings and get so little work done. It actually makes me laugh. It’s also funny to see them grovel for customer love and treat everyone on my side, well a few of us, like we are the lowest form of humans. I don’t much need the job any more but man. I’m just curious, are lots of EY people just flat out a$$holes? Some of them also seem very robotic. Like they’re dead inside and work is the only thing keeping them alive. I’ve worked with oracle, Deloitte, Accenture and GT consultants….none more pathetic than the EY people I am working with now.
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We make them condescending with all the talk about how we are leaders in X and we only hire the brightest, blah blah. What they haven’t realized is that we are not talking about them, we are talking about folks who have proven it. These newbies have not earned any right to be condescending just because they got hired. They don’t realize that the client is usually smarter than them.
OP here...thanks for the confirmation. That's the best word for it. One guy was about my age, 46 at the time, another guy was much younger. They looked like they never worked a day in their life and hadn't seen sunlight in a decade. They were both just spoiled little proper prim rose paperboys. It was funny cause as the project went along, I continued to wrangle power away from them; simply because I have worked many different types of jobs, but with that, you learn what works. They would literally ask the same eff'n questions of me every week. it was a painful experience. When I left and they were like "Oh man, it's been so great working with you....where are you going next? I said, "I don't have a job, I am just getting away from here..." It was like the grinch stole Christmas. It's sad....they were intelligent guys but had the emotional intelligence of tree stumps. And I have nothing wrong with people who are into religion, but the one guy claimed to be so religious and he was the biggest a-hole of them all. I dont know what they're feeding EY employees these days, but it sure isn't a diet of quality work and humility. So happy to never see them again.
Unfortunately, I have to agree to these comments. I was at EY little over a decade. In my opinion, folks hired in the last 7 years also spoiled culture .
Man. You said it. It’s a small sample size but well, it’s a sample. I’m actually laughing cause they think they’re somebodies and they’re nobodies.
Toxic culture breeds toxic people.