Pros and Cons - Senior Audit Associate BDO Employee Review

3.0
Aug 9, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

1. Good starting point as a fresh grad as you have opportunities to expose to a variety of industries 2. Better salary package, branding and market presence compared to other small audit firms 3. Structured training programs for technical and soft skills

Cons

1. Long hours - Due to staff shortages and the need to manage recovery rates, some managers reduce the allocated hours for each job. This often results in handling 3 to 4 or more engagements simultaneously, creating backlogs as new assignments continue to come in. 2. Toxic management - favoritism, unrealistic expectations 3. Work from home is prohibited 4. 1.5year of employment bond

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 5, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

There actually are great people, but you play manager roulette.

Cons

BDO is notorious for promoting people who just never leave. The middle of the road, not great, not awful, people get promoted over and over again. There have been changes every 3 seconds since the ESOP. Terrible communication around change (non-existent). My manager's favorite term was "We are building the plane as we fly it". After 4 years, I was hoping to have more plane built. It was never built.

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