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Alta Planning + Design

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Alta Planning + Design Reviews

3.5

61% would recommend to a friend

(79 total reviews)

Brett Hondorp

83% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Alta Planning + Design has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 79 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Alta Planning + Design employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, repair and maintenance industry (3.7 stars).

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79 reviews
1.0
11 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Beautiful expensive view perfect for commuting from your mansion on your e-bike to downtown on a safe secure bikeway.

Cons

Culture of retaliation, bullying, and overt normativity, blatant and subtle racism. It’s obvious the partners and principals and project managers only work on projects that make their homes or kid’s schools or neighborhoods increase in property values while being overtly prejudice towards poor and racially marginalized communities. If you’re a young person looking for something meaningful, go anywhere else. This company is about making a tiny amount of the already rich people in already rich neighborhoods bike faster on their e bikes, not solve complex problems of active transportation safety and equity for poor or rural or diverse communities. Menlo Park and Lake Oswego and Edina have amazing infrastructure because that’s where the decision makers live, send their kids to school, and ensure public resources and monies ear marketed for equity goals receive first priority and highest quality of service.

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Alta Planning + Design Response
1w
Thank you for your review. I am sorry to hear you had a negative experience. We are always working to make ourselves better and if you have time to send information about your experience and challenges that you identified or faced in your time at Alta, please email our DE&I team at DiversityEquityInclusion@AltaGo.com. They help Alta's leadership identify internal issues, as well as help to educate employees and leadership on systemic city, state, and national issues.
3.0
7 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexible schedule and social justice centered coworkers

Cons

A lot of micromanaging from supervisors and u felt my exit wasn’t done with care or consideration

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Alta Planning + Design Response
1w
Thank you for your review, I appreciate the positives and negatives that you have shared.
4.0
13 May 2026

Great place to work

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Working with people clearly passionate about what they do, interesting projects, women and working parents at all levels, good benefits ($1000 stipend for active transportation and $800 stipend for health and wellness every year, great starting PTO)

Cons

Acquired by PE-backed firm a couple years ago - should be cognizant of what can happen under this kind of acquisition Not the most racially diverse

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