Thoses should know... - Assurance Senior Associate BDO Employee Review

1.0
Dec 22, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Laid back atmosphere for the most part. Felt like it was impossible to get fired, unless you were in and admin/hr/support position. Most were friendly, although there was definitely that "B" team awkwardness feel too. If you're a female they'd love to promote you to partner, especially a good looking one, but def even the not so good looking ones. You will not work a lot.

Cons

You will not learn a lot. Firm is very cheap. From happy hours to reimbursement dinners ($10) this is no big four. Worked in both audit and consulting and can tell you the partners must view themselves as the "B" team when it comes to pricing engagements, so cheap, they have to be a cheap firm. They're aquiring small firms with a "c" team intelligence level. You fell like no one knows a damn thing around there in general. There were a handful of intelligent people I worked with, but it was slim, maybe 5%. PTO and benefits were definitely lacking. My PTO was 16 days total. They are open Christmas eve, not a very Christian oriented company. Pay was way under market as stop performer, I left for a 28% raise to a competitor and received an additional 10 PTO days. Some partners were so awkward you wonder how they could ever bring in business.

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Pros

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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