Great experience except for last day - Anonymous employee CDM Smith Employee Review

4.0
17 Aug 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Very busy throughout tenure. Worked with a great team, which helped make things bearable even when workload was crushing. Appreciated for my talents and personality. Made lasting friendships. Paid fairly for my contributions.

Cons

After being treated with respect for the vast majority of my employment there, I was thrown to the curb when they cut a senior manager's position and several others during a reorganization. They lay off staff with zero compassion or consideration of the facts.

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Pros

Lots of training and opportunities

Cons

Company structure can be confusing

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Thank you for taking the time to leave us a 5-star review! It was great to have you as an employee and wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
2.0
18 Jun 2026
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Pros

Flexible hybrid schedule is very nice and starting salary is high for early career engineers.

Cons

The main people running the company are not engineers and you can tell. They are all focused on utilization with rates often set at 97% or higher. This had led to my supervisor asking/telling me to not charge company required trainings. As an early engineer it really feels like they don't want to invest in me and only care about their bottom line. If you are an early career structural engineer you will also not get any meaningful work until you've been with the company for at least 5 years. The senior engineers do not trust you and will only give you grunt work.

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