Would be a good employer if it wasn't for poor staff morale - Anonymous employee BDO Employee Review

2.0
21 Oct 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people are intelligent, friendly and a pleasure to work with. The office is nice and usually well maintained. Free breakfast before 8.30 is a nice perk. Although less than the Big Four, pay is ok for the hours and the work performed. Genuine attempts to respect work-life balance, although they really worked out in practice. Training offered used to be very good but suffered a little when the company structure changed.

Cons

Staff morale was very low for about two years prior to be leaving. Although a rewards system was set up to help with issues with recognition, it's operation depended on who you worked with, as some managers used it all the time and others never touched it. I think this actually lowered morale because it meant that some people were getting little to no credit that other people were being rewarded handsomely for.

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Flexible work schedule and great leadership

Cons

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1.0
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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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