Avantages
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.
Inconvénients
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.