Overworked Underappreciated - Learning Solutions Specialist BDO Employee Review

3.0
3 Sept 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company itself does a decent job of providing perks for employees. There are 13 paid holidays per year including the entire week from Christmas Day till New Year's Day. Also, there's an open bar at basically every event, and you're allowed to expense alcoholic purchases on trips. They really fling money around at BDO, which is humorous.

Cons

OVERWORKED. I worked an average of 50 hours a week with a minimum of 45 hours a week and a maximum of 75 hours a week. The flex policy is also terrible--you can only flex two hours a week. Meaning if you work 75 hours for the week, on Friday you can only leave 2 hours early--any earlier and you'll have to use PTO despite putting in two weeks' work already.

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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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