Former Manager - Tax Manager BDO Employee Review

2.0
30 May 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Big Company that is rapidly growing. Freedom to move around as you please.

Cons

Struggled with assimilation after the merger with UHY. Tax just was not able to compete on the corporate side. Company would accept engagements that were so small it was very difficult to remain profitable. Didn't seem to want to utilize all available resources in order to compete with bigger firms. Growth mostly came in form of acquisition of smaller regional firms. That creates culture clash. Growth not coming in the form of increasing market presence. Will take over your life without remorse

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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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