Unfair Compensation & Promotion - Senior Assurance Associate BDO Employee Review

3.0
25 Sept 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible, Good Exposure Good office location Good benefits Good academic support Assists with CPA Good audit methodology Many opportunities to lead

Cons

Subjective performance evaluations Unfair client scheduling, some employees don't get an opportunity to prove themselves. No diversity in upper management, certain groups are not represented well.

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BDO Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your perceptions. Performance evaluations are of course subjective because they require human judgment but they should not be biased. One benefit of public accounting is working in different project teams to allow a variety of judgments and evaluations to form a composite view for each individual, hopefully neutralizing any unconscious bias. If you do see a project or experience you would like to have, certainly volunteer and ask your career advisor to advocate for you to be placed on challenging growth assignments. As for diversity, I'm with you! As an industry, we all struggle to find and draw diverse backgrounds to our firms. We are committed to doing so and welcome any ideas you have for how we can do it better!

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