good people, poor HR - Senior Associate BDO Employee Review

3.0
21 Mar 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Great people, each individual has his or her own character. Great service for companies that are looking for high performance and no fees.

Cons

People are not as valued as they should be and benefits are mediocre. Human resources is supposed to support their people, but they create more barriers than opportunities for their people. Response time is really slow.

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Pros

Flexible work schedule and great leadership

Cons

Workload sometimes is a lot, but that is normal for the industry.

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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