Poor Leadership - Administrative Assistant BDO Employee Review

2.0
Jun 2, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits package, professionals are very nice.

Cons

Do you like to work in an environment where you are treated poorly, enjoy receiving demeaning emails, and made to feel like you have no self-worth? Working as an admin in the Detroit office is the position for you. Everything you say, do, or write will be subject to scrutiny and you will not have a chance to explain either verbally or in print. This will happen in front of your teammates or worse yet, professionals. Do you like to do battle with yourself every day on whether to go into the office for more verbal and mental abuse? If so, then this job is for you. Consider this, admin is hired and quits on the first day. Yes, this is normal in this office so if this is the kind of job you want then submit your application today and feel the stress begin.

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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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