No work life balance - Senior Audit Manager BDO Employee Review

2.0
May 9, 2023
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Pros

The people you work with are great

Cons

Partners does not appreciate the your effort. Partners communicate one thing and when it comes to there jobs, everything goes out the window. No work life balance, if you enjoy working 12-14hours day, it is a place for you. Lack of resources to support an actual audit. Partners care more about recovery rate than the mental health of its employees. Work are pushed up constantly, more junior members are not well trained. A significant number of experienced managers and seniors resigned due to work life balance, instead of recruiting good candidates, Partners has decided bum on sit is better. Due to the number of experienced employees resigning, Partners decided to promote numerous not yet ready candidates to sent a more positive message to the rest of the team despite push back from managers that actually work with these candidates comments.

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Cons

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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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