Stingy firm - Audit Senior Associate BDO Employee Review

2.0
Jul 16, 2022
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Pros

I am working at BDO Malaysia. The learning curve is steep.

Cons

LOW SALARY. Company's HR always self-claimed themselves to be one of the Malaysia's Big 4. However, the employee benefits and welfares are not even on par with other small audit firms. Many seniors have resigned and are the firm is currently facing serious understaff issue. New joiners are assigned with multiple jobs at a time with no supervision from seniors (Lack of seniors).

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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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