Not a bad place to work - Administrative Assistant BDO Employee Review

4.0
29 Jan 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The people and the environment. There is a lot of diversity in the tasks you perform from tax processing to EA. The firm is focused on its mission.

Cons

Long hours during both tax seasons up to 15-16 hour says including Saturdays. It can sometimes appear that the value that the administrative staff brings is overlooked and under valued. Career path for administrative staff is not mapped out.

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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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