Great People, Okay Firm - Experienced Tax Associate BDO Employee Review

3.0
2 Mar 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The people are what makes this firm great. They are always there to help and are genuine. There's flexibility to go to appointments or work from home when needed. The pay is okay and pretty on par with other firms. There is a free and fully stocked cafe for employees. During trainings and busy season, dinners will be provided 2-3 times a week.

Cons

The same complaints everyone has about public accounting applies. Long hours and lots of stress. We should get more time off during non busy seasons to help with work life balance and overall happiness. Once BDO became ESOP it has had significant budget cuts, mass employee firings, and more stress on profit over the wellbeing of their employees.

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5.0
27 May 2026
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Pros

Work life balance and range of opportunities

Cons

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2.0
5 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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