Underneath the BDO brand, everything about the firm is extremely localised and nothing like it aspires to be. - Anonymous employee BDO Employee Review

2.0
18 Jan 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Friendly colleagues, decent office location

Cons

Sub par management, mostly from Big Four coming here to get a second shot at their career objectives. Very poor infrastructure due to extremely tight cost control. Very limited IT, HR and Marketing Communications departments which exist for the sake of existing. Staff are here just so that they can move on to the Big Four later on, hence the bond, and the firm knows that deep down. Current salary level is the same for more than 6 years. Yet despite all this, the firm aims to be the "Big Five". Former colleagues who moved on to the Big Four all agreed that the Big Four are just way ahead professionally, socially, culturally, etc.

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Cons

If you are not part of the SWC "club" (company name prior to them joining BDO), good luck. Poor leadership!!! Practice lead talks to everyone like they are talking to a CEO, not relatable in most cases. No clear employee development plans. You are held accountable for things completely outside of your individual control. They stress incorporating AI into work strategy, but have no plan on what that looks like or how to do it and want everyone to formulate it because leadership has no roadmap. One has no control over where you want to take your career, yet you are expected to know everything, about everything. As a result, you become an expert of nothing! Work assigned rarely leverages skills, almost as if they throw darts to see who works on what.

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