Do NOT join BDO Mgmt Consulting dept - Consultant BDO Employee Review

1.0
5 Aug 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Good colleagues (to share the burden with)

Cons

The department is run terribly, with zero strategy in place (although upper management likes to insist there is). More decisions are made because of being reactionary and moody than actual long term planning Several managers and junior staff have left. They get treated poorly, pay & benefits are petty, learning is limited, overworked...the list goes on Most days are a mess trying to deliver work that upper management has promised client (often without letting project team know beforehand). No resources, no actual consulting experts...just left to figure things out on your own List really goes on - just save yourself the hassle (no matter how desperate you may be) and don't join

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Pros

Learn good accounting concepts and people are nice.

Cons

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2.0
5 June 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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