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    BDO Reviews

    Updated 7 December 2018
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    Pros

    • "Work life balance is reasonable" (in 96 reviews)

    • "Very good working environment and friendly team" (in 60 reviews)

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    1. "Great Company"

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      Current Employee - Tax Associate in London, England
      Current Employee - Tax Associate in London, England
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook

      I have been working at BDO full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      The culture is sublime and the people are great.

      Cons

      No cons, great company with happy employees

    2. "Summer Internship"

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      Former Employee - Summer Intern in London, England
      Former Employee - Summer Intern in London, England
      Neutral Outlook

      I worked at BDO (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Good company culture, very good benefits, and a chance to run various CSR initiatives.

      Cons

      Very much the stereotypical internship - 6 weeks on excel just adding data, making coffee, and lots of photocopying.

      Advice to Management

      Actually engage the interns in real work - no wonder so few interns decide to come back.

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    3. "auditor"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at BDO full-time

      Pros

      easy, good, fine, happy, location

      Cons

      salary, pressure, gender, bonus, life

    4. "Accounts Executive"

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      Current Employee - Accounts Executive in Bristol, England
      Current Employee - Accounts Executive in Bristol, England
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at BDO full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Great people and values. Very chilled out atmosphere, easy going and supportive environment. Quite flexible in accommodating staff, lots of part-time mothers and flexible working is encouraged. Pays for overtime/gives TOIL.

      Cons

      Work can be done in terms of career development and opportunities, lag someway behind the Big 4

      Advice to Management

      Ensure employees feel valued

    5. "senior exec"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at BDO full-time

      Pros

      nice people, good for training contract

      Cons

      a lot of focus on non client work and not accounting,

    6. "Great vibes from the company"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      Pros

      everyone from partner to trainee is so friendly

      Cons

      check if you actually want to be an accountant

    7. "Personal Assistant"

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      Current Employee - Personal Assistant in London, England
      Current Employee - Personal Assistant in London, England
      Recommends

      I have been working at BDO (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Relatively small, do not feel like a cog in a machine

      Cons

      Lower pay than some firms

    8. "Auditor"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in London, England
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in London, England
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at BDO (More than a year)

      Pros

      Toil paid for overtime worked

      Cons

      Long hours, terrible office politics, inconsistent career progression, salary lower than other companies. Firm is trying to pretend that it is a big four company when they don't have the capacity to compete in this space, leading to a very unhappy work force. Overall a very unpleasant place to work

      Advice to Management

      None. Company is worse than any Big 4 audit firm.

    9. "Audit Senior"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at BDO full-time

      Pros

      Good office in central london
      Good training contract and time off in college

      Cons

      Long working hours
      Limited promotion

    10. "Good firm; often poorly managed"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook

      I have been working at BDO full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      - Professional qualification
      - Huge firm globally; you can gain exposure to large and varied clients and work with other BDO member offices around the world.
      - Significant responsibility at an early stage relative to larger firms.
      - Good internal resources

      Cons

      - Often too much expectation placed on junior levels of staff. Due to resourcing issues juniors with one year's experience are often doing the work of someone with 3 years. This can have benefits with regards to exposure when at big four you progress a lot slower. However there has to be a balance and often BDO is too much the other way.
      - Reluctance to look beyond numbers and focus on intangibles such as staff morale, motivation etc. Happy to let people go without replacing them without considering the negative impact on current staff. Subsequently current staff end up with too much workload and then they wonder why they leave.
      - Partner profit shares are higher than KPMG on average. The firm triumphs this as a good thing without considering the ridiculousness of it. Remunerating partners more than a big 4 firm with 5x the overall revenue, that suggests merely a far more unequal firm and is nothing to boast about. Again, they will wonder why talent leave in the face of stats like that.

      Advice to Management

      Focus on recognising contributions of staff and the intangible benefits will flow.