COWI Reviews

4.2

83% would recommend to a friend

(468 total reviews)

JENS HØJGAARD CHRISTOFFERSEN

94% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

COWI has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 468 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The COWI 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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468 reviews
1.0
30 Nov 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good place for for a first job of a newly graduated and up to 5 years experienced employee,

Cons

After several years being dedicated and loyal employee, recruited for my significant international experience, I found myself not moving anywhere and literally said "riding a dead horse". It is time to get off the dead horse realizing the following: This company is not an attractive working place for middle level and senior experts and managers. No career and knowledge development opportunities for non-Danes and "non-friends" of management, including fake promises while hiring of high level specialists, no appreciation, bad communication, bad coordination, bad organization and prioritizing what is important (many people are overloaded and in the same time other are having nothing to do), non-transparency in every aspect (status of ongoing projects, management, decision making, promotions, education and training opportunities, kind of "gossip" culture, unpredictability), criteria for success are unclear, discrimination (women/ foreigners are with lower salaries than men/ Danes), closed working environment, but pretending to be open and international, bad manner when dismissing people, only formally following the requirements for healthy working and psychological environment, but in reality not caring and showing absolutely artificial interest in the employees' wellbeing, not giving constructive feedback from the management of one's work, but "hiding under the carpet" conflict avoiding approach by just dismissing. The only focus is costs cutting, sending job to distributed work offices abroad, on the expense of firing loyal employees proven through the years in the company and lost control on the final results and the quality of the delivered work, of course. Salary level is significantly below the average. Heavy and inefficient hierarchy and administrative system, useless activities like continuous reorganizations and moving of offices, useless HR and communication departments (zero support and not following own company's procedures when someone is on-boarded, off-boarded or during due to work stress sick leave), tons of Directors , Vice Presidents and Senior Vice Presidents in each department with unclear functions, qualifications and contribution. The satisfaction surveys among the employees are very formal and no improvement can be seen through the years. Due to the above the motivation gradually is going down.

2.0
3 Dec 2018

Avoid if you can

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good salary. Some folks are really intelligent and doing the best they can.

Cons

The leadership is a mess. No one seems like they want to work there and is always on edge. The principals take zero responsibility for their failings and push off problems or blame lower level employees.

4.0
3 Jul 2018

Bridge Engineer

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good learning experience, Nice Collegues

Cons

Low pay, Layouts, Repetitive tasks

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