Unfair treatment of sponsored /foreign employees - Audit Senior BDO Employee Review

2.0
13 Mar 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The pay is fair market rate

Cons

Employees on skilled worker visas/ foreigners are treated unfairly. You are given all the donkey work on an engagement, looked down upon and frustrated until you resign. The training to assimilate into the organisation is inadequate. You are hardly assigned the work on the job spec. Progression path and the performance review process behind it are not clear.

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Cons

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