Beware - Tax Associate BDO Employee Review

2.0
Sep 10, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

You get opportunities to learn advanced taxation issues. You can't get the same kind of experience from many places. I enjoyed working with most of the people. They have a lot of opportunities to learn in the classroom for continuing education. They make an effort to make sure that you're happy.

Cons

Although they like to market themselves as an alternative to the Big Four, you're still going to work you just as much. They're just not as honest about the time involved. As a tax associate, there were many weeks were my colleagues and I were working 65+ hours. They say they do 55 billable, but that really means you're at work at least 65 hours. Even at the senior level, there was no decrease in time.

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Cons

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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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