No Work Life Balance High Pressure Environment - Tax Associate BDO Employee Review

1.0
Apr 10, 2024
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Pros

The amount of reputable rapid experience you will build up can be used in many different industry sectors down the line.

Cons

First of, for the job requirement's of both needing to have a CPA and working around the clock every single day, both the salary and benefits are laughable. Extremely underpay employees while putting immense pressure to reach billable goal. Not to mention that the training they will offer you is extremely minimal and you will spend much of your own personal time researching how to find solutions to problems you cant even diagnose. Work life balance was non-existent. They would act as if when you worked a normal work week hours that this was a benefit and should be cherished. Everyone with in upper management was either extremely unapproachable or would get frustrated for asking diagnoses to issues on engagements as the ultimate goal was to squeeze out as much as possible for the client with minimal hours billed on it. Overall, it seemed to be a very high stress career with long working hours, and repetitive which is why the turnover rate was extremely high year over year.

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Cons

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1.0
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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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