Poor management - Anonymous BDO Employee Review

1.0
Apr 28, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits such as holidays and Insurance Some of the entry-level staff are friendly, and it is relatively easy to make connections with your peers around the office. When the firm inevitably restructures or makes cuts, they do provide a standard severance package.

Cons

The work environment is highly disorganized, and the leadership team is completely misaligned. Management gives extreme mixed signals—one supervisor will tell you that you are improving and doing well, while a senior manager will actively ignore your ideas and ice you out of meetings. There is a deeply ingrained culture of office politics where coworkers will complain behind your back instead of communicating directly. Furthermore, new hires are set up to fail. Junior staff are evaluated on impossible, unreasonable metrics (such as expecting 100% perfect accuracy on tasks right away) with almost zero actual coaching or mentorship. Instead of training you, management prefers to micromanage minor, insignificant things to build a paper trail. You can be told you are on the right track, only to be suddenly laid off without cause due to a “business decision.”

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5.0
Apr 16, 2026
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Pros

Learn good accounting concepts and people are nice.

Cons

Boring work unfortunately but it’s a job

2.0
Jun 5, 2026
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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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