Disappointing experience - Anonymous employee BDO Employee Review

1.0
Oct 26, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good learning in a couple of projects.

Cons

Working for a company like BDO with no regard for work-life balance and a blatant money-oriented mindset can be a soul-crushing experience. From the outside, such companies might appear successful, but behind the scenes, they are often breeding grounds for stress, burnout, and employee dissatisfaction. Here, dedicated employees are discarded like obsolete machinery, all in the pursuit of financial gain. Not just that, they make sure that nobody gives you a recommendation due to ridiculous HR policies. The relentless demand for productivity and accounting for your time by the minute leads to chronic stress, health problems, and strained relationships. Avoid this company like a plague!

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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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