Very short staffed and no learning. Horrible management. - Senior Tax Accountant BDO Employee Review

2.0
Nov 10, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Mid size, smaller clients. Flex plans available if granted.

Cons

1. No manager or seniors to teach and support. You either self learn or learn form other staff. 2. No trainings. Only national training which are pre- recorded. 3. Lack of empathy. 4. No sick days. 5. No room to grow. Growth is stagnant as there is no focus on it at all. 6. Lack of regular feedbacks. No way to improve if no feedbacks are given. 7. Merger with new regional company has added pressure on existing employees. 8. No focus on well-being or mental health. Management does not care if you worked overtime on deadline weeks. No extra time off to comp for overworked weeks before deadline. 9. No courtesy lunch or dinners provided during busy season. 10. Lack of team development. 11. Blame culture. 13. No 401k match for first year. 14. No profit sharing or bonus. 15. No transparency on pay scale or bonus if offered.

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1.0
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Pros

Compensation is OK. There are some really nice people in the organization to work with, but you have to find them.

Cons

If you are not part of the SWC "club" (company name prior to them joining BDO), good luck. Poor leadership!!! Practice lead talks to everyone like they are talking to a CEO, not relatable in most cases. No clear employee development plans. You are held accountable for things completely outside of your individual control. They stress incorporating AI into work strategy, but have no plan on what that looks like or how to do it and want everyone to formulate it because leadership has no roadmap. One has no control over where you want to take your career, yet you are expected to know everything, about everything. As a result, you become an expert of nothing! Work assigned rarely leverages skills, almost as if they throw darts to see who works on what.

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