Why I Quit My Big 4 Audit Career 

Audit definitely is not for everyone - finding this out early and leaving is not a bad thing at all! Looks like you have found something you enjoy more - congratulations.

Wow, I did an internship at Deloitte this past summer in auditing and the amount of stress i FACED under a month was insane. I was working overtime to finish multiple projects under a certain timeframe without getting the proper training.

I also work at a big 4 professional service firm for about a year and 9 months now. I just got promoted to a senior associate role last August. The promotion feels validating to be honest but I just got a lot exhausted. I had to absorb a workload of 4 employees last June to September and the constant unappreciative executives didn't make it better + we're severely underpaid. I got to reflecting these past weeks and finally submitted my resignation letter to the partner. I'm currently in my 1st week of rendering my resignation and it feels a lot better to be honest. I feel like I'm finally doing something for me.

So insightful! thanks for sharing. It's amazing how much social competency can be gained from a job (that part really caught my attention). Every experience is valuable, and you certainly learned a lot.

Thank you sharing this great experience. It’s definitely helpful 🙌🏼

Great transition bro. Data analytics and new skills like powerBI etc for analysis should be the way to go!

With all the scandals and pretty much things getting exposed at big 4 now, glad you made the right decision. It seems like they’re all about presentation, which I found out early in my college undergrad school, and not necessarily care about the person dedication, interest or unique and creative thinking. At least you finally land a job based on your field and tbh there will be more opportunity in such field going forward. Best of luck and thank you for sharing

After 2 years and 8 months with one of the Big 4 in Auditing the experience and knowledge gained was great but I realized that auditing is not for me (stressful) so I resigned. It's the best decision I had made in life.

The background music just makes public accounting even sadder🤣🤣🤣

Thanks for this video. I think more people should be aware of the realities of this kind of work before they choose their career route in accounting or finance. I truly believe that the world's brightest people aspire to accounting careers, but the financial world is enormous. There are limitless options.. and analytics is definitely a lot of fun on the good days!

Good luck on the new role!

Great content 👍

Audit is hell compared to Consulting and less rewarding. If you are stuck there it means your aren't good enough for consulting but are just good enough to make the cut

Great video and lots of respect for coming out about this! It would be great to understand whether you were given the necessary action plan to improve your work-life balance from the feedback given by the company/your managers or whether you were left to do it by yourself? One would argue that if you didn't then you should hold yourself accountable and should have searched for ways to be more efficient with how you manage and conduct your work individually and as a team to manage the expectations of the role. I say this because a lot of new recruits expect the company to have all the answers for them and for things to magically change for the better, but from my experience, it's actually the employees who take it upon themselves to optimise their work efficiency, to ensure they're not being burnt out, that continue to progress through their company/role area. Otherwise thank you for an honest and useful video! Looking forward to the Data analyst video and hopefully, the grass is greener on the other side!

Of course.....it had to be Audit, I feel you bro, waiting for the same, to leave the job

absolutely right, now I am A1, and it's freaking terrible. Working culture is too toxic. I did one thing,and my manager tells me that great,but you don't need to do this. I hope one day there goona be a start-up, that will make diasaper this industry.And people will be finally free to live

To me it would seem better if the Big 4 changed the work pattern from 9-5 with an astronomical amount of overtime to shift work. All staff are put onto a rota and you work a different shift say every 2 weeks. Have an early, rush hour, middle, late and night shift. Have a four day week, 9 hours per day, working every 1 out of 3 weekends. Staff have the option to put in for paid overtime if they wish. You could have the early as 6am to 3pm, rush hour as 9am to 6pm, middle as 12pm to 9pm, late as 3pm to 12am and the night as 10pm to 7am. The office would be open 24/7 for the clients and staff would have long breaks between each shift to recover/socialise but could earn extra with optional overtime.

I am glad you made this decision for yourself.

I worked at a few small accounting firms from Feb 2021-April 2023. It sucked. At the second one we we're required to work minimum 55 hrs during busy season. We had minimum billiable hrs too which could be really hard if there was any transition between working on tax cases. Really in order to meet the billable goals you almost had to do 60hrs during busy, feb-April and Sept/Oct. Now, as an hourly employee ya I was compensated, but it wasn't worth it. So glad I'm out.

Two years ago a friend of mine worked at a Big4 company and he 'grinded' around 70-80 hours per week during the busy season. His performance manager had already promised him a promotion to assistant manager if he could just push through the upcoming spring - but in the end, he never got the promotion. Instead, someone from outside the company was brought in for that position. Working at a Big4 company can be extremely brutal, and I've often wondered how the company supports those with children. Working at a Big4 really isn't for everyone, and in the end, it's not even very 'healthy'.

love u bro, u said what i though but i still did not have a ball to quit :( almost 2 yrs in this shjt hole :(

I just finished my 3rd busy season. it got to a level where I am working 100 hour weeks for weeks on end and not getting credit or compensation, I am finally quitting. It definitely is not for everyone. My advice is to look into the clients, teams and engagements of the team and partner you fall under and see if the workload and type of work aligns with what you're going to do.

I definitely hate working for more than 40 hours a week. But, I'm willing to work for experience for about a year if I can push through.

I also quit my audit job , what will be another job for an ACCA affiliate

Audit is horrible I'm just trying to get through a year at this point

« Come the **** on » made it for me. Instant like to the video 😅

I got fired in december after 1.5 years. don't know what to do now. Ive been working a weird job

I am working in an Indian Big4 audit and facing same issue of overwork.I am working 12 hours a day and also not getting any weekend off from past 3 months. Can’t understand how anyone can survive in such a job in which you are not getting time for yourself. Just hoping to quit soon.

Great transition 👍🏼

Hello, very interesting! Could you please give advice on how to successfully pass the test in pwc?

If there is that much dislike around work it might be the best time to change jobs. If another collegue saw only like work then that person would stay.

Do you have your CPA?

Tax or Audit? which one to choose?

LOL. Auditor here. I avoided big 4 so I could train jiu jitsu.

The most sad things about audit are that we auditors beg the clients about data. This hurts a lot. Secondly, you work late hours. You are sitting late at nights to deliver the projects but there is no need for such emergency as no body is dying. After you go home after 10-12 hours, you get calls from seniors and teammates for things/data. This is so frustrating. So sad. There should be a legal action against such job. Shame on everyone who is supporting this.

No one in accounting will train. Please note accounting is a rigorous and tedious field, and the learning curve is higher after graduate school. What you learned in school not all but most of it goes out the door.

How did you get into the big 4 without an accounting degree?

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Hi. I want to quit my current role at big 4 however i am confused on what could be a good reason to say when i will be asked this question in interview? Can you please guide.

So if you get a bad comment from a client at your current job I guess you gonna quit right ....! don't take things personally , use that time as an opportunity to acquire skills..... when you at a new industry don't chase money rather look for opportunities to acquire skills and relationships..

How is data analysis job.

these auditorss are also hated, because you should already know the questions you're asking. for example, if you're asking to break down the mezzanine structure in Lease deals, instead of confirming if the extra subsidy payment recourse is for mezznine support, how am i supposed to react? You should ALREADY KNOW THIS STUFF, that's why you're auditing. In construction industry, a lot of companies offer mezzanine support to keep the customer payment low and make make the returning RV higher. it's simple enough, the OEM promises Mezzanine payment in times of customer's defaults while keeping the payment incredibly low for their cost of business. Now, if you're being asked to break this down in detail by the same person 4 times, how would you react? you should already know the stuff you're asking. THAT"S WHY YOU WENT TO COLLEGE

Long hours

What's with all these "I quit" videos lol

awww he had to work hard :(

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Hey do you have to take CPA for this job?