Worst Audit Firm - Experienced Audit Senior BDO Employee Review

1.0
4 Jul 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

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Cons

Highly political environment. Career advisors are not interested in fulfilling their jobs and they don't like to advise employees on their performance, instead, meet with senior management at so called GROW meeting (performance evaluation meeting) to recommend senior management for layoffs of employees they don't like or suggested by Audit Managers due to grudges against their not favorite ones . The people withing the firm do back biting, especially the audit managers and other senior level staff. They call the employees from other developing countries and after one busy season, they simply lay off them by labelling them as not meeting firm's expectations. So potential employees coming from abroad take this matter serious when making decision to join this hell. The busy season is on throughout the year so never ending. Audit Managers are not friendly and they are more political and likely to have grudges against the employees they don't like.

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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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