BDO reviews

3.5

62% would recommend to a friend

(10,339 total reviews)

Pat Kramer and Peter van Laer

73% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

BDO has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 10,339 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BDO employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzen industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Jun 2, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

laptop, mouse, DSE items provided upon joining decent range of optional employee benefits such as lease cars and salary sacrifice for additional leave

Cons

This sector is understaffed and overworked. These people don't, nor will they, care about you and your wellbeing. In the last few years they've removed double pay for weekend overtime as well as introduced contract changes that make the first hour you work a day unpaid too. Unsurprisingly they've since taken the opportunity to enforce mandatory overtime clauses in contracts across several offices which are due be in place for several months. The leave you can take during this time is also restricted. Work from home privileges have been gutted and working conditions at client sites are poor and would not pass any kind of DSE assessments. Although you join with a designated office location in your contract, you will spend the bulk of your time at a client's for which additional travel time is very rarely eligible for overtime/pay. Thus prepare to travel double, sometimes triple your normal work commute on a near daily basis. Their partner pay and benefits increased, and their profits have remained strong, but rest assured your pay will be the exception to that rule. The people you will encounter are truly lovely and it's a welcoming team environment, but this sentiment of "we're all in this together" omits the fact that those at the top refuse to properly deal with inadequate staffing issues and employee welfare concerns.

1.0
Feb 21, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Prestige - Exposure to different businesses

Cons

- All USP's you can find about the company online are simple lies or outdated information. - They like to believe that they have a less toxic work invironment than big 4, but that simply not true, it is exactly the same the only difference is that partners get more that those from big 4 and the rest of the company gets less than big four. - Be prepared to be disposable, literally a single mistake and you're out. - Horrible working patterns - You will be made to do jobs you are not qualified to do simply because you are the cheapest

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