Completely incompetent management consultancy - Consultant BDO Employee Review

1.0
15 Aug 2018
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Pros

Some decent and kind colleagues

Cons

It is impossible to imagine how clients pay for management advice from this firm. The HR practices are clownish. Senior managers don’t have the faintest clue how to manage people or projects. There is no functioning management structure so advancement is simply down to being liked by the boss. New hires are so shocked at the chaotic culture that there’s a swingeing bond scheme where you are forced to buy your work laptop and pay for any training if you leave, financially trapping innocent victims in a lunatic asylum. Does that sound harsh? The boss wins business and refuses to say what he has promised the clients. He is the first one to leave the office every day. He has no idea how to resource the commitments he makes and must imagine a team of elves are doing the work overnight. The firm advises clients strategically on HR, Finance, Marketing etc. yet is incapable of applying this to its own work. It is a truly difficult challenge to ascertain what the boss actually does.

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Cons

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2.0
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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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