BPM Reviews

3.6

69% would recommend to a friend

(412 total reviews)
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Jim Wallace

70% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

BPM has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 412 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BPM employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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412 reviews
1.0
6 May 2024

Avoid BPM at all costs

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Work from home, standard benefits (401k, dental, vision, life)

Cons

A precursor to all the positive reviews are that HR begs the staff and seniors to write good reviews and incentivize them with bonuses if they praise the company. -Above the supervisor level, management is virtually non-existent. Work sits unreviewed for months on end, emails go unanswered, and forget about getting any help or guidance on open items or questions you may have. It's as if they're actively trying to sabotage their own workforce. -Client books provided are an absolute mess. Illegible doesn't even begin to describe them. Instead of focusing on the tasks at hand, you're forced to play detective and decipher what should be basic accounting information. It's essentially doing the job of a GAAP and Tax accountant combined. -Onboarding is a joke. Three pre-recorded Zoom call videos that have no relevance to the actual work you'll be doing hardly qualify as training. -The company practices silent layoffs every quarter. You never know when the axe will fall, creating a toxic atmosphere of uncertainty and fear. -The overwhelming majority of employees below management level regret accepting a job offer here. That sentiment speaks volumes about the toxic culture and environment within the firm. -The pay is insulting. It's below market rate, and don't even dream of yearly compensation increases for the cost of living - they simply don't exist. Promotions come with negligible pay increases, and yearly bonuses are practically nothing. -The distribution of work to reach budgeted hours is a disaster. Rather than efficiently allocating tasks, you're left scrambling to beg, borrow, and steal hours from every department just to meet your billable hour goal. And when targets aren't met, management is quick to shift the blame onto their overworked and underappreciated employees.

1.0
3 Feb 2025

Run far away

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent health insurance benefits for family

Cons

Literally everything. If your current firm gets bought out, run far away and don’t accept a position. They'll call it a merge - but it’s 100% a buyout because your partners will have no choice on anything. Because People Matter is the farthest from the truth. Because Profits Matter is the reality. If you are below the Tax Manager level, you will never have job security. BPM plans to move almost all prep work overseas where they pay poor quality workers less than slave wages. If a client refuses offshore consent, they immediately get a steep price hike for refusing to allow their returns to get transferred to India.

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BPM Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. What you have described is not representative of the culture we strive to create. There are a few points in your feedback that we need to address. We are committed to building a global team of qualified professionals who help address our clients' needs around the clock. The location of our colleagues does not impact the fees of our clients. We take a transparent, value-driven approach to pricing that reflects the expertise, technology, and efficiencies we bring to our work. Pricing adjustments, when they occur, are based on the complexity of the return, scope of work, and overall service needs. We are committed to paying fair compensation where our employees reside. We felt it was important to address these items out of respect to our colleagues, near and far. We are truly sorry that this is how you felt about your experience with BPM. We wish you the best in your future career.
1.0
23 May 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Masterful marketing campaign worthy of a political campaign - in the misleading sense!

Cons

One will go far if they are one of the management favorites! You know the sort - managers with less than zero people skills but they have unique technical abilities that somehow make them irreplaceable. This is sadly a prevalent problem in public accounting, but BPM strives to take this to the next level. I found out I was terminated by receiving an email from their IT department at 5PM. There wasn’t a prior discussion with my coach (who fit the definition of an empty suit), other managers, or HR. The brief Teams call came after the email, and only after I messaged my clueless coach. I was meeting billable hour goals, but I must have irked one of the many managers who wrote rude review comments and insisted on doing things the way they always have. You gotta love the dinosaurs in public accounting! New employees will be inundated with brainwashing techniques like never ending conference calls where the old guard touts how great the firm is. Well, for the zero emotional intelligence drill instructors, of course it is! They outlasted the honest, hardworking, and ethical former employees who took a deep sigh of relief after they moved forward. The pain felt from leaving is from the temporary loss of income, but rest assured there are many BPM survivors who can relate and will help others if they ask for it. There are many firms of comparable size that a candidate should choose over this one - I am glad my time there is over.

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