Big4 with lower pay - Audit Assistant Manager BDO Employee Review

4.0
2 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- learn the way of audit as similar as big4 - peers and superiors are friendly and helpful - good coaching by superiors - better pay than big4 when good performers are rewarded with better bonus in overall

Cons

- not as well recognised as big4 when people look at your CV but people never know the work quality could easily surpass big4 - audit is always hectic, it’s not the cons of the firm but the industry - the effort put in should be compensated with higher pay, again is not the cons of the firm but the industry as a whole - tight deadline, again this is the shitshow in every audit firm

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
5 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

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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