Great projects and reputation; Enthusiastic smart team; Industry leaders; Effective development programs; Solution oriented staff across all levels; Nice training programs and compensation for some training; Mid range health insurance benefits; Good mentor program; Good at hiring when backlog gets high; Slow to layoff
Cons
Lots of internal policies and procedures that hurt project budgets and schedules; HR supports resource managers and not employees; Blame/CYA culture; Some budget for training, but resources are available to do it on your own time
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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.