I was micromanaged out of the East Region Transfer Pricing Group. - Senior Manager BDO Employee Review

1.0
1 Aug 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Other groups at BDO besides Transfer Pricing appear to be relatively functional. If I had been able to join any other group, or any transfer pricing group outside the East region, I might have formed a very different opinion.

Cons

Imagine that every time you get on a phone call with a client, your manager gets on the internal instant messaging system and tells you what to say. Imagine that your manager tried to persuade you that when this happened, you were "leading the call." Imagine receiving detailed monthly emails explaining to you how to set up Outlook appointments. Imagine having your career adviser tell you that in spite of 10+ years of professional education, your job was to act as a "secretary" to your manager. Imagine upsetting your manager because you asked for his opinion, only to have him tell you later that you need to ask for his opinion. That was BDO for me--in that one transfer pricing group.

Explore other reviews about BDO

5.0
24 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexibly, challenging work and team

Cons

Really not too much to complain about

3.0
27 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Really liked the people I worked with and the culture in the office

Cons

Teams were pressured to move more and more work to BDO Rise, which left our staff struggling to get hours and some were assigned to other teams outside of our office. Hard to motivate staff and train staff when they felt like they were replaceable and had no ownership over their work/teams

See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All