There are better places to work... - Anonymous employee BDO Employee Review

1.0
Jan 5, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The admin team minus the new "team lead" were fantastic. Always willing to lend a hand when needed. Made life long friends there. Partners are great there as well... 95% never hesitating to back their assistants.

Cons

Unless you are chummy with the HR department, they will dismiss you without warning. I was there for almost 4 years and was 'let go' because I wasn't 'advancing as fast as they would like'... I later found out that, that phrase along with "not working to standard" is their standard phrase for when they want to get rid of you or do not want to pay you your worth. There are better places to work.

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Cons

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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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