Good First Job, But Not Great Culture
Pros
Very smart, knowledgeable Managing Director and Manager The Business Valuation team recruits at UCSB, which isn't often a target school You can sneak free food during accounting busy season if you're friends with the accounting team Work life balance is good as I usually could leave around 5pm
Cons
Pay wasn't great, and more so annual merit increase was very small ($1000) Very boring and anti-social coworkers in general Boring work as a whole Not much room for creativity, experimentation - there is a right way to do something and you have to learn what it is - it's not so much crafting a story or developing a strategy for your clients as making your modeling/report fit a pre-existing valuation (e.g., EY values a 5% stake in a company at $60k so you make your discounted cash flow and comparables come out around $60k).
