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      BDO

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      BDO reviews

      3.5

      63% would recommend to a friend

      (10,318 total reviews)

      Pat Kramer and Peter van Laer

      73% approve of CEO

      58% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.6

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Culture & values

      3.2

      Senior management

      3.1

      Work/Life balance

      3.1

      Compensation and benefits

      BDO has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 10,318 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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      10K reviews
      2.0
      Feb 10, 2016

      If you aren't an accountant or consultant, you are a second class citizen here.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Lots of work to do, never a dull moment. BDO is growing.

      Cons

      If you work for any of the support services, such as finance or IT, you are treated as overhead and have no real career path or path to becoming a parnter or upper management. Support departments are woefully understaffed and underfunded, but the business lines complain that we aren't doing enough for them and are not completing work in a timely fashion. Core values and work life balance are spouted at management meetings, but the people exemplified by management are those who forego having a life and work days on end without breaks. 12+ hour days and lots of calls on nights and weekends are the norm, not the exception.

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      BDO Response
      10y
      I 100% agree with your "advice:; we are and should be judged and known by how we behave not by what we say. Now, there is no doubt in periods of rapid growth infrastructure gets burdened bur we are all committed to continuing investments in our core business services. We see every CBS leader as "upper management" so I have to disagree with you on that point. As to career path, we have celebrated many career progressions of our CBS professionals and do have partners leading finance, marketing/communications and HR, so I believe we have made meaningful progress in demonstrating the respect and value of CBS contributions. By the way, your term "support services" doesn't begin to reflect the true value and place of CBS professionals, which is why you will never hear our CEO use that phrase.
      1.0
      Oct 8, 2015

      Severe disappointment

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - central location as of 2015 - Small amount of dental allowance - Some decent colleagues - Learn patience and tolerance

      Cons

      - 1.5y + notice period bond - 3y Laptop bond - salary way below average market rate - Minimal annual leave - High employee turnover - No strategic direction - culture of favouritism and passive aggressiveness amongst management - Culture of opaqueness across office - Overselling beyond capabilities to potential clients encouraged; overselling to potential employees actively practiced - Micromanagement - Unwillingness to take accountability and blame-shifting - Poor appraisal system (sometimes totally neglected) and job scope creep - indifference to feedback and therefore refusal to change - Strict IT surveyance - Little to no interaction between overseas offices - Internationally acclaimed company name masks the reality of working in the Singapore office

      3.0
      Mar 29, 2015

      High stress and intimidating environment

      Consultant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      If you don't mind working long hours and acquiring certification on your own time, you can eventually advance your career here Exposure to many different technologies Well-recognized company, a couple years here should make finding a new job rather easy Team outings and Beer on Friday @ 4pm, and you can learn to hate leftover Maggiano's from banquets A lot of smart and driven people, most of whom are friendly The CEO seems pretty nice and the overall culture is decent

      Cons

      For a company that promotes work-life balance, there definitely did not seem to be a lot of it Managed Services Hiring standards are very high and pay does not necessarily reflect this. This leads to understaffing, which means employees are expected to work long hours and often get burnt out Due to this inability or unwillingness to hire more staff, off-hours positions are very hard to leave The NOC is rather chaotic and the monitoring software is buggy and difficult to work with, creating a high level of stress and repetitive and unappreciated tasks New clients are often on-boarded without proper coverage or preparation, furthering the whole mess Despite all this, perfection is expected at all times and you will hear about each and every mistake Middle management can often lead by intimidation and encourages non-use of comp time Inappropriate and rude comments and finger-pointing which got progressively worse over time. Employees seen as underperformers are quickly fired or managed out of the company. Some may see this as a pro. No 401K match

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