No Work Life Balance High Pressure Environment - Tax Associate BDO Employee Review

1.0
Apr 10, 2024
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Pros

The amount of reputable rapid experience you will build up can be used in many different industry sectors down the line.

Cons

First of, for the job requirement's of both needing to have a CPA and working around the clock every single day, both the salary and benefits are laughable. Extremely underpay employees while putting immense pressure to reach billable goal. Not to mention that the training they will offer you is extremely minimal and you will spend much of your own personal time researching how to find solutions to problems you cant even diagnose. Work life balance was non-existent. They would act as if when you worked a normal work week hours that this was a benefit and should be cherished. Everyone with in upper management was either extremely unapproachable or would get frustrated for asking diagnoses to issues on engagements as the ultimate goal was to squeeze out as much as possible for the client with minimal hours billed on it. Overall, it seemed to be a very high stress career with long working hours, and repetitive which is why the turnover rate was extremely high year over year.

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5.0
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Cons

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3.0
Jul 2, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

I left during a time of transition, since the top practice director retired and the EBA leader took over as interim leader. This interim guy seemed to be waiting for something to take any action with current resources, and he was not too interested in rallying or figuring things out as a team. If he had expectations, they were never communicated to me. The lack of clarity was very challenging for me personally, and it came off as a lack of support. I think others in the team probably feel similarly.

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