Good workplace environment - Anonymous employee CDM Smith Employee Review
4.0
20 Jan 2025
Anonymous employee
Current employee, more than 1 year
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
-No micromanagement
-Plenty of training and learning opportunities for junior staff
Cons
-Bare minimum of paid holidays
CDM Smith Response
1y
Thank you for your feedback! We’re glad to hear you appreciate the workplace environment and training opportunities at CDM Smith. We value your input and will take your feedback into consideration as we continue to enhance our industry leading offerings. Thank you for being a part of the team!
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.