would rather have been a cleaner...no joke - Audit Semi Senior BDO Employee Review

1.0
Sep 10, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- free breakfast at baker street before 8.30am (to the value of £1.50...therefore toast and tea) - pretty nice office in london (poor outside london) - work plenty of hours for the same annual pay - aca out of it...probably MAIN BENEFIT

Cons

- no recognition - all about the right handshake, wink wink, ill see you right mate attitude - HR appalling - racist firm (NO JOKE) - made (i.e. forced) to undertake jobs above your pay grade with client none the wiser (unethical to say the least) all about saving costs on charge out rates - as a firm overall its in decline and if i could rewind the clock...most likely would have gone big 4.

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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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