Luck as the main contributor - Senior Associate BDO Employee Review

3.0
Mar 8, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Luck really does play a huge role, as it's been over a year I'm working at BDO, and though at times I do have my peak period, but personally nothing too stressful. The seniors I've met were very accommodating, the jobs were okay, and colleagues were mostly nice.

Cons

The latest that I have to stay at the office is up until 11pm, but ofc there were times that I had to stay later than that to get some works done, but it was to my own accord, no one pushed me to it. But do note, this is based on my OWN experience, others might differ so really, your luck plays a huge role in determining whether you're able to stay for long or not.

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Compensation is OK. There are some really nice people in the organization to work with, but you have to find them.

Cons

If you are not part of the SWC "club" (company name prior to them joining BDO), good luck. Poor leadership!!! Practice lead talks to everyone like they are talking to a CEO, not relatable in most cases. No clear employee development plans. You are held accountable for things completely outside of your individual control. They stress incorporating AI into work strategy, but have no plan on what that looks like or how to do it and want everyone to formulate it because leadership has no roadmap. One has no control over where you want to take your career, yet you are expected to know everything, about everything. As a result, you become an expert of nothing! Work assigned rarely leverages skills, almost as if they throw darts to see who works on what.

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