BDO Reviews

Cons

As in all accountancy firms you are worked very hard, though BDO does, unlike the big 4, pay overtime

Cons

Workload can be a bit much

Cons

Rude and lazy supervisors.
No work life balance
Poor communication to staff
Overtime not paid
Lots of young talents quit due to lack of promotion

Cons

Lesser pay than Big 4 with same working hours

Cons

- Not enough staff for the work which results in existing good staff having to work much longer hours
- Extremely high staff turnover
- Lack of transparency on promotions, will bring up anything they can in appraisals to not give promotions/salary increase or bonus
- Every single person in the company is in it for themselves and managers will always try to bring you down
- Managers and Senior Managers abuse the flexible working hours and intimidate the junior members of staff

Cons

audit is not a fulfilling job

Cons

As above partners rairly in the office and distant from what is happening on the ground and dont have strong client relationships.

When they are in the office one particular partner can be very hot and cold. If something hasnt gone to plan, blames someone else and can be extremely rude.

Need more staff at all levels. High staff turnover and has been for a number of years.

Some senior members of staff including partners have poor technical knowledge.

Due to staff shortages, staff are sending work out to clients where they don't have sufficient knowledge which is going to result in a large claim on the firms insurance.

The SSC has caused more work for the seniors to manager who receive the computations back late and completed to a very poor level often with technical errors in. Feedback has been ignored and they increasing the size without listening whether it fits BDO's needs.

Too high charge out rates and historically low fees in comparison which results in low recoveries. The low recoveries are blamed on managers. When a manager attempts to increase the fee and the client questions the increase. The partner just rolls over and the low fee continues.

Lack of transparency on promotions and feedback is slow and not particularly helpful.

Want to be big 4 so going after too large clients for the firms capabilities and ignoring the needs of its current client base.

Inconsistency in the application of the TOIL policy between offices and departments. Very hard to claim in tax, partners view is your work is part of your job. The reason why you are working late is due to your inefficiency and failure delegate (when there is no one to delegate to) instead of your work load

Cons

Very little career progression and opportunity

Cons

Have to put in the hours at time

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The negatives are a lot as the company loses good and skilled employees only to remain with archiac partnership and directors who do not want to change or move with the times.

- A lot of politics and backbiting, the organisation thrives on destructive gossiping and the clique system.If you find yourself not fitting into one then your stay will not be bearable
- For the short time I was there the turnover of managers was around 80%, no wonder they are always looking for people. The organisation is a smudge on your CV that is why I left I did not even include it on my experience profile as I learnt nothing, I actually regressed. so to those who want to join do so at your own risk

- Management overpromises onpersonall developmen and equatable performance scheme, where in actual fact it is non-existent you only target a salary rise by a negligible percentage. You ask yourself what is the point of wasting time on useless appraisal systems for the sake of administration work.

Directors and Partners are very deceptive and work on divide and rule strategy based on favouritism and nepotism, very unprofessional work place