BDO reviews

3.5

62% would recommend to a friend

(10,310 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 10,310 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 15, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some decent and kind colleagues

Cons

It is impossible to imagine how clients pay for management advice from this firm. The HR practices are clownish. Senior managers don’t have the faintest clue how to manage people or projects. There is no functioning management structure so advancement is simply down to being liked by the boss. New hires are so shocked at the chaotic culture that there’s a swingeing bond scheme where you are forced to buy your work laptop and pay for any training if you leave, financially trapping innocent victims in a lunatic asylum. Does that sound harsh? The boss wins business and refuses to say what he has promised the clients. He is the first one to leave the office every day. He has no idea how to resource the commitments he makes and must imagine a team of elves are doing the work overnight. The firm advises clients strategically on HR, Finance, Marketing etc. yet is incapable of applying this to its own work. It is a truly difficult challenge to ascertain what the boss actually does.

3.0
Apr 18, 2016

The good and the bad.

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good people. Pays average to above average if you can survive the interview process. Good career opportunities and ability to move up. Pays for cell phone.

Cons

Most of these reviews are fake and promoted by HR. SWC can't retain the good people. I'm guessing the long hours and lack of vacation has something to do about it. 10 vacation days a year. 4 sick days. Most of the "fun" place to work stuff is all smoke and mirrors - you will be too busy to enjoy yourself unless you're in HR.

1.0
May 21, 2015

One of the worst place to work in

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you are badly in need of a job

Cons

HR is a mess, they have a employment bond policy of 18 months to prevent high turnover rates in short terms. Management is extremely short sighted, and only care about their bottom lines and margins. Company instills a lot of punitive policies to punish employee to desired actions rather than work to create a better environment to make people stay. Pay is bad, below market average, and they have no plans to work on it. They claim that there is no point paying better as people are always leaving. All in all, it is a bad place to grow one's career. Firm is not interested in helping people grow, and always complain that employees are too picky even though that the firm is not offering any competitive rewards at all.

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