Has the potential to be a great firm, but at the end, disappointing. - Audit BDO Employee Review

1.0
Oct 13, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

-Staff are nice and friendly. -Not bad location, (Central area) -Salary and bonus are relatively standard as compared to the market

Cons

-Poor career opportunities due to the lack of transparency. -Upper management politics affects the firm from the junior to the senior staff. -Poor work morale, staff joining less than 6 months are counting down to the end of the bond. -Poor upper management leadership that consistently overwrites the middle management. -Staff strength is small, unfair distribution of work load can be seen across all levels. -HR policies are amended without proper channels to inform the staff. -Unfair policies that greatly disadvantage the staff. (minimum notice period is 2 months) -3 year laptop bond, laptops provided are low end. 3 year bond is armotised when the contract is signed based on cost, not market value of the laptop when the bond is signed. Laptops are usually bought in bulk and earlier. Market value of laptop is usually 100 -200 lesser than the cost when the bond is signed.

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5.0
Apr 16, 2026
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Pros

Learn good accounting concepts and people are nice.

Cons

Boring work unfortunately but it’s a job

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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