Broad exposure, uncapped advancement potential - Tax Associate BDO Employee Review

5.0
Aug 22, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Ability to work on broad range of engagements and client types. Extensive day-to-day interaction with all levels of team, from intern to managing partner. Company provides excellent training and technology. Compensation is right about where it should be, and related to performance.

Cons

Sometimes increased flexibility can lead to a deviation from rigid processes. Standardization of workflow is an ever-improving and evolving exercise. Recent acquisitings and mergers, while providing unique opportunities for advancement, also cause some "adjustment pains".

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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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