DO NOT RECOMMEND - Associate Tax Consultant BDO Employee Review

1.0
13 Mar 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Experience in business development, client communications, tax accounting, excel.

Cons

Long hours for little pay. The firm wants you to spend all of your waking hours staring at a computer screen, completing pedantic tasks made up by middle management who stare over your shoulder all day because they have no lives. Very worried about making their sandbagged financial projections so that the partners can take all of the low tier workers' pay.

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1.0
22 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation is OK. There are some really nice people in the organization to work with, but you have to find them.

Cons

If you are not part of the SWC "club" (company name prior to them joining BDO), good luck. Poor leadership!!! Practice lead talks to everyone like they are talking to a CEO, not relatable in most cases. No clear employee development plans. You are held accountable for things completely outside of your individual control. They stress incorporating AI into work strategy, but have no plan on what that looks like or how to do it and want everyone to formulate it because leadership has no roadmap. One has no control over where you want to take your career, yet you are expected to know everything, about everything. As a result, you become an expert of nothing! Work assigned rarely leverages skills, almost as if they throw darts to see who works on what.

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