BDO International Reviews

Pros

in order to gain more professional experience, always got lots of things to do during the end of each accounting year

Cons

The salaries and holiday policies are very poor, so employees wouldn't stay for a long time, most of them are just trying to gain experience

Pros

Good work life balance, interesting work

Cons

Can be repetitive and boring, appraisal process needs a bit of work

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

- Enrichment of job scope
- Able to try out new things you have no experience in
- Able to lead assignments
- Able to get away with things which could get you fired in big four

Cons

- You dont know how to do it and they force you
- Very low pay after getting promoted (100-400)
- Very low increments (RM50-100) per year

Advice to Senior Management

- Think of your staff as assets
- Retain long term staff by making them stay, not holding them back with long lock-in period
- Change management attitude, be more human

Pros

management support
encouragement t be innovative and get involed
open door policy

Cons

salary, rewards, recognition, leadership, communication

Pros

no offers from big 4

Cons

very lowly paid compared to others

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

Lots of opportunites to learn and do new assignments in many sectors across the whole of the GCC. Seriously amazing.

Cons

lack of databases
lack of management support in many service lines
for the less proactive people, no real work experience

Advice to Senior Management

Create continuity between offices across MENSA
Also create brand standards that have to be adhered to by company peer review (no other practice will work.)

Pros

cafeteria in london is amazing
people at lower levels are quite nice

Cons

management made out bdo all about the employee, complete lie, so many hidden agenda and politics
no appreciation or recognition for any hard work you put in
not flexible with people
job is completely depressing

Advice to Senior Management

stop being so underhand

Pros

Consistent raises each year. The pay is higher than at one of the big four firms. The clients are generally in the middle market range. Travelling is optional and you can specify the degree tow hich you wish to travel in you performance review each year. There are opportunities to travel all over the world in audit. It is fairly easy to transfer within the company as they are easy to deal with. The employees are great to work with and the partners are easy to get along with and respectful towards the employees at all levels of the organization.

Cons

BDO is a smaller firm and tends to have smaller clients. If you want to be dealing with huge, well known, companies all the time then you would be happier at one of the big four.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work