BDO Tanubrata (Indonesia) - Manager BDO Employee Review

3.0
21 Jun 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- You can travel a lot to different places - Due to many client and its type, you can learn a lot from case by case each clients have - Opportunity to liaison with international firm (other country BDO firm or other accounting firm)

Cons

- in the end, it's a family business (the core management was consist of the same people that maybe appropriate or not to the job, but in the end still want to suck the money out) - the partner not really care about its client, its a different compare to the Big 4 firm, at least to big client they really care for it (not all, but some partner already)...in the end they only your money - due to the family business, the office game of thrones (office politics) was really - really hard.....they said in Big 4 firm tend to be more harder, but in here it just the same - they still rely on old say that said with minimum effort, get the maximum result.....so they cut many things that essential, like training, global secondment opportunity.....for the firm that said we are the one only behind big 4, it seems strange due to at least they can cope with big 4 way of style..... - still looking to identity.....they don't have their own methodology strong inside, they hired people from big 4 to join, hope that this ex big 4 people can develop it.....doesn't the point of growth was better from inside and also don't expect we came and then all going to be the same as big 4.....

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Pros

Flexible work schedule and great leadership

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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