Local Experience - Good; Corporate Systems - Terrible! - Project Manager AECOM Employee Review

3.0
30 Jan 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The people in the local office are well versed in their specific knowledge bases; large pool of resources within the company; technical groups within the company have been very helpful and knowledgable; local management understands the challenges of working within the horrible corporate systems. In effect - the people make it possible to put up with the corporate madness.

Cons

Horrible corporate systems for managing projects - too much focus on profit and not enough focus on client satisfaction and the actual engineering/geological/etc. work that we are paid to do. Overanalysis does not equal increased profit! I have very little confidence in corporate management.

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