Lacks imagination - Anonymous employee BDO Employee Review

3.0
22 Nov 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Friendly staff, flexible work hours and lots of opportunities for paid time off. Benefits are good, the flex $'s are high so you get a lot, they improved the health benefits last year and they're much better.

Cons

A lot of the leadership are former Big 4, they are mainly interested in recreating what they had. They lack imagination and suffer from an identity crisis, always comparing themselves to Big 4, yet saying they don't want to be like them anyway. RSP match is low.

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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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