Improving - Tax Associate BDO Employee Review

4.0
4 May 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They have made a real effort to staff up the tax group recently and this past busy season was made much more doable than in the past as a result. Management seems to have a clear vision of where they want to take the firm in the next few years and has made real progress recently. Not the Big 4 in a good way - Partners know your name, understand that you have other options and treat you as someone who adds value to the company. Good camaraderie among staff- if someone is getting overloaded others will try to help if they can.

Cons

Doesn't have name recognition outside the financial world. Exit opportunities not quite what you can get when moving on from Big 4. Pay seems to be lagging behind competitors a bit.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
5 June 2026
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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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