Good work experience, environment, lots of hours, pay could be better - Senior Auditor BDO Employee Review

4.0
Oct 30, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

BDO is a growing company and I gained good auditing experience from them. You may have some small clients that allow you the gain the experience (and headache) of doing pretty much an entire audit by yourself. This can be a mess but in the end I've had the opportunity to work on many different facets instead of working for months on one area of a mega-huge corporation.

Cons

Pay seems to be less than big 4, hours seem to be more (longer duration of busy season), some people work considerably more than others

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 5, 2026
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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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