Avoid working here at all costs! - Assurance Manager BDO Employee Review

1.0
Dec 28, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Competitive Salaries, bonuses (higher bonuses given to management), benefits, vacation time is average for the industry, perks like free lunches and out of town dinners

Cons

Politics, nepotism, favoritism, long hours of over 80 hours per week and weekend work, understaffed (low staff to management ratio), no work life balance, over 50% travel, lack of respect & fairness towards staff level employees, sexist environment (fewer women in management and partner levels), lack of diversity in workforce (mostly caucasian employees), inconsistent management across offices (no central firm-wide management), partner and management in-fighting, partners are unsupervised and there is no accountability for their actions.

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5.0
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Pros

Learn good accounting concepts and people are nice.

Cons

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2.0
Jun 5, 2026
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Pros

There actually are great people, but you play manager roulette.

Cons

BDO is notorious for promoting people who just never leave. The middle of the road, not great, not awful, people get promoted over and over again. There have been changes every 3 seconds since the ESOP. Terrible communication around change (non-existent). My manager's favorite term was "We are building the plane as we fly it". After 4 years, I was hoping to have more plane built. It was never built.

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