BDO reviews

TLDR: Bad communication, bad management, no feedback, frequent layoffs. 1) Despite specifically asking about my on-boarding plan during the interview process and being assured there was one, there was not. My on-boarding plan was to read a 70 page legal document. I was never trained in a single task. 2) There is a culture of having lots of meetings, but decisions or action items are rarely determined in these meetings. I believe they are just to increase billing. I was told by junior staff they liked working with me because when I scheduled a meeting with them, they actually understood what the action items were, which was unique among people of my level or above. 3) I was lied to about receiving a bonus my first year. I was told to be eligible for a bonus in my first year, I had to join by a certain date in November. I set my start date specifically to meet this deadline, but I did not receive a bonus my first year. Had I known I would not have received a bonus, I would have taken more time off between jobs. When I raised this with my career advisor, he said he would try to resolve it, but he never followed up. 4) My career advisor was completely absent, often canceling check-ins at the last minute. 5) The circumstances of my departure were rude, cruel, and shady. My performance reviews had all been Successful, including my most recent mid-year review. Since that time, I had taken on numerous new responsibilities and a new project. I had developed what I thought to be was a good rapport with my project manager, and she was actively continuing to assign me new tasks and responsibilities. Then I was called out of the blue to inform me that I was being let go for performance reasons. I had never once received any negative feedback from my career advisor, and my project manager had indicated that I was largely succeeding in my role. I do not claim to be perfect, but I performed my work on time and accurately. I have no idea where this came from, and attempts to reach out to my project advisor to ask for clarification were ignored. I have since received out reach from many colleagues offering support, to indicate they believed I was treated unfairly, and that they would happily vouch for the quality of my work. 6) They had three layoffs in the 18 months I worked there. Not stabile.

Employees on skilled worker visas/ foreigners are treated unfairly. You are given all the donkey work on an engagement, looked down upon and frustrated until you resign. The training to assimilate into the organisation is inadequate. You are hardly assigned the work on the job spec. Progression path and the performance review process behind it are not clear.