BDO reviews

3.5

62% would recommend to a friend

(10,358 total reviews)

Pat Kramer and Peter van Laer

74% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

BDO has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 10,358 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BDO employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Dec 21, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Growing so great exposure to clients taken from Big 4 - Audit sector team below Manager was supportive - Great look on CV - Good exposure to client senior management Rating would be higher but toxic work environment that is led by the white male partners, sexism and racism, inappropriate jokes about female employees especially when they get drunk.

Cons

- Burnout due to long hours and lack of resourcing. Some managers and graduates took months off work because of stress and mental health especially during the pandemic - Lack of diversity, equity and inclusion for ethnic minorities from assistant manager and up - The ethnic minority assistant managers and managers that were role models were treated badly so left - No clarity on performance appraisals and based on favouritism especially if you are a white male - Audit Partners and senior managers carry out targeted bullying and harassment especially if you are good at your job and your clients and teams respect and like you - Lack of training for junior members of team - No consequences for partners when bullying is reported. Partners are protected even with multiple people coming forward about being bullied - HR protects the bullies then punishes the bullied Work at BDO to get it on your CV but don't stay too long or your mental health will suffer

2.0
Jun 23, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very welcoming to fresh graduates with no experience. Peers are always great.

Cons

While peers are great, management not so. Got to wear armour that protects your back while higher people claim credit for the good stuff and shifts blame for bad stuff.

1.0
Jan 23, 2023

Mentally tiring to work

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Team (staff level) can be quite fun to work with as we joke about our work, bosses, and clients - Very modern way to unlock office using fingerprint (which is sort of unhygienic when Covid hit) - You get exposure to different types of work, clients, and industry

Cons

- We get blamed for everything we do, even on the grammar we use on our emails (makes pressing the "Send" button on emails mentally tiring). Our English often gets criticised, saying is hard to understand and we need to improve on it but generally most people can understand (fact: I have been using the same English standard for the past 3 years without any issue). - Superiors are not that helpful. They say we can ask questions if need any clarification but always end up wasting time having long winded discussions in meetings and ending without conclusions. - Having lots of workload that are different in nature ongoing concurrently. In addition, you might also get dragged into organising "team engagement" stuff that takes up even more time that you don't have much of (P.S. you would still get blamed if superiors find it no fun). - Every day at work is just thinking of how to avoid getting blamed instead of actually doing the work properly. - You still need to do admin stuff like raising invoice to clients (which is a very tedious process).

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