One of the worst place to work in - Anonymous employee BDO Employee Review

1.0
May 21, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you are badly in need of a job

Cons

HR is a mess, they have a employment bond policy of 18 months to prevent high turnover rates in short terms. Management is extremely short sighted, and only care about their bottom lines and margins. Company instills a lot of punitive policies to punish employee to desired actions rather than work to create a better environment to make people stay. Pay is bad, below market average, and they have no plans to work on it. They claim that there is no point paying better as people are always leaving. All in all, it is a bad place to grow one's career. Firm is not interested in helping people grow, and always complain that employees are too picky even though that the firm is not offering any competitive rewards at all.

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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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