Great change from big 4 rat race - Anonymous employee BDO Employee Review

5.0
Apr 20, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good team to work with, focus on building group with the right people with the right attitudes, clear direction for career growth, great pay, access to management, opportunity for advancement at multiple points in year-- better than big 4which only allows advancement once a year!

Cons

Growing team has some growing pains, but management is focused on correcting the growing pains.

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Learn good accounting concepts and people are nice.

Cons

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Pros

There actually are great people, but you play manager roulette.

Cons

BDO is notorious for promoting people who just never leave. The middle of the road, not great, not awful, people get promoted over and over again. There have been changes every 3 seconds since the ESOP. Terrible communication around change (non-existent). My manager's favorite term was "We are building the plane as we fly it". After 4 years, I was hoping to have more plane built. It was never built.

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