NYC Transfer Pricing - Extremely high turnover for a good reason. - Transfer Pricing Associate BDO Employee Review

1.0
1 Oct 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Good starting point for a first job. Relatively diverse team. BDO as a whole has an ok general reputation.

Cons

Extremely high turnover, toxic management and work culture, lack of interesting projects (a lot of compliance work), below market pay, no bonuses, very outdated office, no office snacks. Internal deliverable deadlines would be very arbitrary. Would send deliverables to managers for review and they would not review it until weeks later even it was communicated that these deadlines were very urgent. Mainly, the terrible and outdated management styles of the managing director. Many of my former colleagues and I experienced the lowest points of our mental health while working here.

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5.0
2 Jun 2026
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Pros

Strong team culture and they offered great flexibility throughout the internship.

Cons

High workload during busy season (although that is expected)

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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