Mentally tiring to work - Senior II BDO Employee Review

1.0
Jan 23, 2023
Recommend
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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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Cons

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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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