Great company to work with - Anonymous employee CDM Smith Employee Review
5.0
9 Dec 2022
Anonymous employee
Current employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Great work environment and work life balance.
Cons
Nothing that comes to my mind.
CDM Smith Response
3y
Thank you for your great review! We are thrilled to hear you are enjoying CDM Smith. We value creating a great work-life balance and are happy to hear you approve.
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.