Poor working environment - Assistant Manager BDO Employee Review

1.0
10 Sept 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Friendly and helpful colleague. Spacious working desk.

Cons

Poor work allocation with superior judging you on the mistakes you done. Gossips around the department is a norm. The mentality of superiors need to be changed. WFH does not mean we are not working and no deadline to meet. The problems do not stop at audit department itself, be careful of the HR (people and culture department). I still do not have an idea why the department is named this way. Culture? Culture of looking down on staff? Gossip culture? Ignoring emails from employees? Staff welfare is not taken care of and instead sending unprofessional emails before clarify any incident. Poor compensation and benefits as compared to other firm.

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Cons

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1.0
22 Jun 2026
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Pros

Compensation is OK. There are some really nice people in the organization to work with, but you have to find them.

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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