Former Manager - Tax Manager BDO Employee Review

2.0
30 May 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Big Company that is rapidly growing. Freedom to move around as you please.

Cons

Struggled with assimilation after the merger with UHY. Tax just was not able to compete on the corporate side. Company would accept engagements that were so small it was very difficult to remain profitable. Didn't seem to want to utilize all available resources in order to compete with bigger firms. Growth mostly came in form of acquisition of smaller regional firms. That creates culture clash. Growth not coming in the form of increasing market presence. Will take over your life without remorse

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

Cons

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2.0
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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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