Limited opportunities, especially for women. - Civil Engineer Sinclair Knight Merz Employee Review

If you are not part of the MAMIL cycle club (Middle Aged Men in Lycra) than you get nowhere. Don't work here if you are a woman, don't be fooled by their 'Women in Consulting' promises - you don't get anywhere. There is so many levels of middle management, that makes the entire company extremely top heavy and full of ex shareholders (after Jacobs merger) that just charge to overheads. They made all the wrong people redundant during the GFC and consequent 3-4 rounds of redundancies. The treatment of graduates is very poor, no engagement and very little in the way of professional development opportunities. Make big promises in the interview stage but don't follow through. If you don't achieve CPENG/RPEQ within 4 years of graduation (A pretty hard ask when you don't get to actually work on projects) then you are automatically career limited throughout the company. Expect a lot of unpaid overtime - especially from junior staff. If you question their resourcing policy - you get put on the 'list' and even more limited in your project involvement. Salary reviews are a joke - they don't actually budget for increases ever. The Jacobs acquisition process promises more pain, and they have started a policy of 'don't tell staff anything' instead of the previous SKM policy of 'give some information out on occasion'.