Poor learning opportunities and remuneration/benefits - Senior Associate - Advisory BDO Employee Review

1.0
Apr 17, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

I go to work daily thinking about exit opps. So what pros do you expect?

Cons

1) No learning opportunity 2) Poor management with zero guidance 3) Zero exposure to deals 4) Learn everything online or from books 5) Poor camaraderie among colleagues 6) 1.5 years of bond + 2 mths notice period 7) If bond is broken, one has to pay a) 3 mths of current mthly salary + b) remaining net book value of laptop + c)return bond allowances given monthly till the date of resignation

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Pros

Learn good accounting concepts and people are nice.

Cons

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2.0
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Pros

There actually are great people, but you play manager roulette.

Cons

BDO is notorious for promoting people who just never leave. The middle of the road, not great, not awful, people get promoted over and over again. There have been changes every 3 seconds since the ESOP. Terrible communication around change (non-existent). My manager's favorite term was "We are building the plane as we fly it". After 4 years, I was hoping to have more plane built. It was never built.

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