good place to work. - Assurance Director BDO Employee Review

4.0
Jan 8, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

more interested in staff than their competitors. quality of offices and what is made available to staff like fresh fruit daily, gym membership, location of office are all major pluses. Good people to work with and generally a friendly environment. The firm also has a decent pension scheme available to staff. Staff also dont have to work as many hours as are expected in a Big 4 environment.

Cons

complexity of work sometimes isnt there in comparison to Big 4. Overall pay is lower than big 4, but thats to be expected as partners earn substantially less than partners in big 4.

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5.0
Apr 30, 2026
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Pros

I like my team a lot

Cons

No cons really sometimes long work

2.0
Jun 5, 2026
Recommend
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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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