Good place to work - Advisory BDO Employee Review

5.0
Feb 17, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Good emphasis of work life balance whilst an ACA trainee

Cons

- Subject matter is not always the most interesting - A lot of time is spent on onboarding clients and other administrative tasks to ensure the firm is compliant with UK and other region / regulation specific requirements.

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5.0
May 27, 2026
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Pros

Work life balance and range of opportunities

Cons

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2.0
Jun 5, 2026
Recommend
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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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