These people will not respect you. - Audit Trainee BDO Employee Review

2.0
2 Jun 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

laptop, mouse, DSE items provided upon joining decent range of optional employee benefits such as lease cars and salary sacrifice for additional leave

Cons

This sector is understaffed and overworked. These people don't, nor will they, care about you and your wellbeing. In the last few years they've removed double pay for weekend overtime as well as introduced contract changes that make the first hour you work a day unpaid too. Unsurprisingly they've since taken the opportunity to enforce mandatory overtime clauses in contracts across several offices which are due be in place for several months. The leave you can take during this time is also restricted. Work from home privileges have been gutted and working conditions at client sites are poor and would not pass any kind of DSE assessments. Although you join with a designated office location in your contract, you will spend the bulk of your time at a client's for which additional travel time is very rarely eligible for overtime/pay. Thus prepare to travel double, sometimes triple your normal work commute on a near daily basis. Their partner pay and benefits increased, and their profits have remained strong, but rest assured your pay will be the exception to that rule. The people you will encounter are truly lovely and it's a welcoming team environment, but this sentiment of "we're all in this together" omits the fact that those at the top refuse to properly deal with inadequate staffing issues and employee welfare concerns.

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5.0
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Pros

Strong team culture and they offered great flexibility throughout the internship.

Cons

High workload during busy season (although that is expected)

1.0
22 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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