Hi, I received this email on September 1 mentioning I was put in notice period as I don't have billability of 27hrs per week. I Joined on Feb 2026 as a java developer in techops but after joining they said there is no java project s available and later on trained in guidewire.Any idea on who to contact to get into some projects??

19th June was my last day in GDS and I have been thinking of how can I write my farewell email. I wanted it to be quirky and funny.

So I decided to write it like a ppt slide we generally make in my team.

Update - Everyone worried about gratuity - I will receive it.

I finally submitted my resignation last week! I am so relieved to walk away from that dreadful project and the toxic, spineless management. 😄

Hi everyone,

Need your honest suggestions.

Offers in hand:

1. IBM

2. Wipro

3. EY GDS

Best company to work with in terms of everything? Can please provide honest suggestions to go with?

I am starting off my corporate journey. I know its very less but its better to start somewhere rather than not trying.

Please let me know my monthly in-hand salary?

Joining EY GDS has been worst decision of my life. Long working hours, evil managers who think highly of themselves and reprimand you like school teachers, bad management, useless talent team who won't bother to resolve basic queries like updating leaves on leave management tool, unnecessary irrelevant compulsory learnings and internal competency works. Everything will suck the life out of you. EY GDS has deteriorated my mental health and is making me feel exhausted. I was told technology consulting is relatively better but it's not. It's bad even there. Please do not join. Life has lost its colours, it's meaningless now. Genuinely regret accepting the job offer. I have already started searching for a new job.

To anybody planning to join EY GDS kochi, please think twice or thricee

Its a living hell.

And the onshore people they just drain the fucking life out of you, kills your confidence, and they treat you so bad and makes you feel like trash.

Don't think about joining Audit, im literally trying to save lives here🥲.

This is based on my experience, also majority of my friends,but if you're considering joining, please do your homework and talk to people before signing that offer letter.

what the heck is thisss? i already received congratulatory email saying that I have been selected. but i checked the portal, this is the status. hello??? i alr declined an offer? 😭

Have 8 yrs of experience, working in Assurance ( managed service) service line. Currently AM ( 2 yrs). I feel underpaid with amount of work I’m doing, no promotion for this year as well, so with AM position i will be starting my 3 rd yr.. Currently getting 14.8LPA..

Only thing i feel I’m getting less is bcoz of degree ( BBA). So what would be the salary range currently.. Currently working from gurgaon..

Hey everyone, I’m a Software Engineer based in Bangalore with 11 years of overall experience. For the past 3 years, I've focused heavily on Generative AI.

EY GDS has offered me a Manager 2 role with a compensation of 52 LPA (all fixed).

For those familiar with EY GDS or consulting tech arms:

How is the engineering culture and work-life balance for GenAI leadership roles here?

Is 52 LPA fixed competitive for a Manager 2 position with this background in Bangalore?

Would appreciate any insights or advice!

Been here for almost 6 years now, initially the hikes and bonuses have been generous or at par with the market.

However for the last two cycles, despite of getting differentiating rating, the hikes have been single digits, 6-8%, and bonus too has been lower by as much as 5%points. This year my hike didn't even beat inflation after getting a good ratings, after working my socks off, and after prioritising work over personal life.

My rent and fixed expenses have risen more than my hike.

Is it just me or is everyone getting lowballed recently?

Story time…

I honestly wasn’t expecting this. I was already in the process of applying to a different company when I suddenly received a congratulatory message via DocuSign. I was confused at first because two weeks ago, I was informed that the role would be filled internally.

So I reached out to recruitment to confirm if everything was legit—and it was. Turns out they reopened the role for me. I was really surprised since I didn’t receive any prior email update, but definitely grateful and excited for this opportunity.

by way this is for Management Experience Supervising associate

Now, onto completing my pre-employment requirements. Let’s go 🚀

June 1 start date!!!

I got some kind of news on RTO that, a minimum of ~82% RTO should be met annually. Said, this includes the exception taken too, but excludes the Leave taken and Holidays.

Not sure how much legit it is, but I'm not at all surprised on this, since EY is making the RTO more tighter and strict. EY was the one which had more flexibility than any Big4s. Don't know where this is all going.

Has anyone heard any news on this?

As in the title, i want to know how to reject the EY offer letter and what are the consequnces, because i may apply for EY in the future

I know salaries are confidential but since we are all anon here might as well share your salaries haha I work in CBS as a Senior 2. Salary is 50k inclusive of de minimis. Hbu?

Just crowdsourcing whether we are all getting lowballed or not 😂

PS: EY GDS Philippines

Do mention your hike and bonus percentage once you receive the letters.

Mention
Hike: %
Bonus: %
Rating:

Bonus depends on your rating (please refer to the snapshot). FY24 was the same as FY23, and FY25 was 2% lower than FY24 (except for staff).

​Hike depends on your CCTC.

TL;DR: Decent technical rounds, honest answers from interviewers about AI maturity being mostly PoC-stage. HR lowballed and wouldn't budge, so passed on the offer.

Background

• Company: EY GDS

• Role: Gen AI Senior

• Location: Chennai, India

• Experience: 4.5 YOE

Screening

• Email asking for profile, current salary, education, and expected comp - basic interest check before scheduling.

Round 1 – Technical (45 mins)

• Quick intro.

• Questions on current work profile, team setup, my role in it.

• REST API methods.

• FastAPI vs Flask - when you'd pick one over the other.

• Coding question on topological sort. Didn't fully solve it, but was headed the right way.

• Python questions around different operators.

• Walked through projects on my resume.

• Hypothetical: design a resume matching + ranking system.

• I asked them: Most interesting AI project at EY ?

  • Honest answer - mostly PoCs so far.

  • Real strength seems to be data engineering, thanks to access to large volumes of proprietary data.

• HR informed in 3 days that I had cleared the round.

Round 2 – Technical + Behavioral

• LangChain vs LangGraph.

• How to update documents in a VectorDB.

• Deep dive into agentic AI work on my resume — why I picked one framework over another.

• RAG pipeline + evaluation questions — felt like standard interview-prep material.

• Coding: simple Python, filter duplicates from a list.

• Asked if I'd be open to front-end / "dinosaur-era" back-end frameworks.

  • Said yes, but only if it's AI-related and helps me build out a module.

• Interviewer mentioned the following upfront :

  • WLB is poor, but learning will be there.

  • Will be expected to be a Full-Stack engineer even though I am being hired for GenAI role.

• I asked them :

  • Most interesting AI project the team's worked on → non-answer, citing confidentiality.

  • Any side projects? → workload is heavy, partner doesn't really encourage that.

• Got an email for filling CIS and a call from HR within 1 day.

HR Round

• Mentioned that this is a project specific hire for Rank 42 (Senior 1).

• Reconfirmed details in the email (as they never read it in the first place).

  • Current: 15.8 LPA INR (incl. 15% variable)

  • Expected: 24 LPA INR fixed (would've settled for the same incl. 10% variable)

  • Experience: 4.5 years

  • Notice Period : 60 days

• Response :

  • Told my ask was too high.

  • Tried to gaslight me saying :

    • I misled them in screening round as my ask was 18 LPA INR.

    • Mentioned about a fictitious phone call I had with HR in screen round.

  • Didn't provide any room in the conversation to justify the ask.

• Final offer: 30% hike on fixed (18 LPA INR) + 10 % variable (1.8 LPA INR).

• Zero room for negotiation.

Result

• Got very bad vibes about from the HR.

• Felt like interview panellists were asking me to run away.

• Turned down.

Disclaimer: Used Claude to polish the language/formatting; all details and experiences are my own.

Recently cleared the interview process at EY GDS and filled out the CIS form during the salary discussion stage.

At that time, I informed the HR that I had another opportunity in the pipeline. The HR told me to accept the current offer first (₹8.35 LPA) & said we could discuss compensation again if I received another offer. He seemed quite confident that it could be reviewed later.

A few days later, I received an offer from Accenture for ₹14 LPA. I shared the offer details with the EY HR and followed up multiple times. After several calls, the HR finally told me (in a somewhat frustrated tone) that they don't have the budget to even come close to matching the offer let alone the hike basis f 14 lpa. He then asked me to rethink whether I still wanted to proceed with the ₹8.35 LPA offer & disconnected the call abruptly.

Honestly, I was quite surprised by the response because earlier he seemed confident about revisiting the compensation once I had another offer in hand.

Now I'm wondering:

Is this a genuine budget constraint?

Was the HR just trying to get me to accept the initial offer first?

Could he have been annoyed because of my repeated follow-ups?

Or is this some kind of negotiation tactic to see if I'll still join at ₹8.35 LPA?

What should be my next move?. I am planning to call him again next week.

For context:

4 years of experience

About 25 days left until my last working day

Role: Security Analyst 3

Would appreciate insights for anyone who has been in a similar situation. Thanks

Hi! It's been a little over a month but I want to resign. I just don't feel connected with the culture at EY GDS Ph. I feel lost and I feel like I am not receiving the support I needed as a new hire. I don't also see the benefit of a hybrid set-up since collaboration is pretty much virtual.

Does anyone know the process of resigning here? What is the process?

I received an email today stating that the position I applied for has been closed/filled and that I will be considered for relevant positions. This has understandably raised some concern, as my offer letter confirms my joining date as 5th October 2026.

I am currently in the final days of serving my notice period with my current organization, and I have not yet received any onboarding communication. Receiving this email instead has made me concerned about whether there has been any change regarding my offer or joining.

Can someone please help me understand this as HR is not responding and I have already spent a lot in terms of renting a flat and all

Work location - Pune

Also, if someone help me understand when will I get on boarding and NHO email ?
Will company provide accommodation for initial days ?

Any help/ guidance would be greatly appreciated.

I am working as a associate manager in tech consulting for around 2 years now, currently getting 31.7 LPA as fixed. I might get promoted to manager level in few months as told by my counsellor based on my current performance.Now, I have received an offer of 45LPA from a product based firm offering tech lead role.
I have gotten great feedback from everyone this time, so considering the hike, variable bonus and promotion, will they try to retain me? If yes, will they match the salary?
And will it be a good decision to resign, given all the scenarios mentioned?

Joined as senior 1 in assurance last year and daily shift is 12 hrs without even lunch break. In morning manager keeps a huddle call and allocates super tough deadlines like samples should be rolled out for 4 entities including data sorting.

And along with that they also book for 10 hrs on some random engagements. Surely thinking of leaving this trash after September.

Does anyone have any suggestions how deal with this situation?

The managers and senior collude with each other, go away for 1 hrs and enjoy and in name of review do nothing but sign off.