BDO reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(10,325 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 10,325 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
1.0
Aug 3, 2017

Tax Manager

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

They have good benefits for employees.

Cons

Very poorly run tax department. Staff members are forced to work overtime year round. Bad communication from upper management

3.0
Jun 21, 2017

BDO Tanubrata (Indonesia)

Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

- You can travel a lot to different places - Due to many client and its type, you can learn a lot from case by case each clients have - Opportunity to liaison with international firm (other country BDO firm or other accounting firm)

Cons

- in the end, it's a family business (the core management was consist of the same people that maybe appropriate or not to the job, but in the end still want to suck the money out) - the partner not really care about its client, its a different compare to the Big 4 firm, at least to big client they really care for it (not all, but some partner already)...in the end they only your money - due to the family business, the office game of thrones (office politics) was really - really hard.....they said in Big 4 firm tend to be more harder, but in here it just the same - they still rely on old say that said with minimum effort, get the maximum result.....so they cut many things that essential, like training, global secondment opportunity.....for the firm that said we are the one only behind big 4, it seems strange due to at least they can cope with big 4 way of style..... - still looking to identity.....they don't have their own methodology strong inside, they hired people from big 4 to join, hope that this ex big 4 people can develop it.....doesn't the point of growth was better from inside and also don't expect we came and then all going to be the same as big 4.....

3.0
May 30, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are 5 partners that know what they are doing and are willing to teach so long as time permits.

Cons

Everything you can imagine: 1) They hire people who are under qualified to high positions such as Managing Director/Sr. Manager. There is one in particular who knows nothing in tax and advertises being a partner. 2) Pay is super, super low....so if you want to be able to pay your bills without racking up debt, stay far away! The workers who perform the work get very little, to nothing to show for their efforts in terms of higher compensation and bonus. As an example, manager salaries after the 2016 raises were in the mid 80K's range, and no, I am not making this up! 3) Backstabbing is very high, so brace yourselves.

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