Poor Management, low pay, no advancement, lack of recognition, high employee turn over rate - Staff Accountant BDO Employee Review

2.0
Mar 22, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

monthly lunch, firm supported activities, sick days leave with pay

Cons

staff, manager, senior manager, and partners have no enough communication. managers have less experience in managing staff, and senior managers only focus on their own work, own clients. partners are too busy, have no time to listen the voice from staff. there are a lot of prejudices against staff at Edmonton office

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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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