Good Benefits and Transparent Company - Anonymous employee CDM Smith Employee Review
4.0
4 Sept 2024
Anonymous employee
Current employee, more than 3 years
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Employee Owned making company pretty clear in direction and bottom line.
Great benefits.
Clear onboarding process.
Cons
Company does not keep up with cost of living raises.
Difficult to grow.
CDM Smith Response
1y
Thank you for the review! We are so happy to have you as part of the CDM Smith team and will keep your feedback in mind when making future choices to keep us as a top choice employer.
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.