BDO reviews

3.5

62% would recommend to a friend

(10,344 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 10,344 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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3.0
Aug 13, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Nice office in downtown Denver with a gym on basement level. Lots of smart, nice people to work with. Great technology/national resources.

Cons

Very expensive parking, and leadership wants you to come in as much as possible - really pushing for in-office unless you are at a client. They want remote work to go away. Salary and bonuses are a joke, salaries are WAY under market. Now that Colorado pay transparency law was passed it is very obvious BDO does not pay what the market currently is offering. ALWAYS understaffed. All of the knowledgeable, experienced employees are leaving for better jobs. Now the region has just a few long-term (mostly directors/partners) employees, and a bunch of really bad turnover. You can't even keep track of who's still working there because people are always leaving. Poor morale - I don't think anyone really believes this region will ever be fully staffed, and most employees aren't even appreciated. They tell you to not "suffer in silence" but when you speak up, they tell you to stop complaining, or insist there is no issue at all, or given excuses why it is taking so long to fix something. It's sad. Senior leadership is totally disconnected from how hard everyone is working/how burnt out everyone is. They brag about firing clients as a solution to "fixing" the workload to help. Client work is more often late than not. Embarrassing to work for them.

2.0
Jul 31, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

You work with a lot of smart, hard working people and certain teams have good cultures. There's a lot of interesting clients and transactions going on, if you roll your sleeves up there's a lot to do and great opportunities to learn and develop.

Cons

Where to start... Average to low pay compared to the market. Due to furloughing all graduates and freezing recruitment for 12 months during covid, they are still chasing their tails to make up the resource deficit. The Big 4, other top ten and industry firms are running rings around them in the recruitment market. That means everyone is flat out, always busy, always working with no sense of work life balance. Revenue growth is always expected despite headcount not going up. The IT, HR and financial management systems are frustrating, don't speak to each other and there is an unbelievable admin burden on managers, senior managers and directors.

1.0
Jul 26, 2022

Toxic work culture

Recommend
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Pros

They offer Extended health benefits

Cons

Management does not care about you and there is a toxic work culture. Feedback is not taken seriously. They only focus on looking good on paper.

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