Dewberry Reviews

The Dilbert effect is in full swing at Dewberry. Project managers are pulled from a huge pool of people fired from other companies. Posturing and verbosity is apparently an acceptable alternative for actual and effective leadership. I was attacked, and insulted through “performance criticism” because I refused to participate in covering up unethical behavior, nor would I allow these people to disrespect me when I refused. They said I was being “uncooperative,” and that the “job description requires me to do what they project manager tells me to do.” Office culture is very provincial and racially insensitive; junior engineers who are women and people of color are often attacked as being “a liability due to their defensiveness and combativeness” with their oftentimes white male counterparts. This is an excuse for allowing discrimination in the workplace. Inappropriate relationships between lower level workers and project managers. The day I handed in my resignation, they tried to tell me that I was “terminated,” but I already notified Human Resources of my resignation. I laughed on my way out of the office. PATHETIC! I would have sued for my troubles had I not already accepted an offer at another firm.

Dewberry isn’t so much a company as a group of business units, so lots of the good reviews on here are for people and business units that aren’t central/corporate or have a totally different culture. In terms of main office/corporate, this company doesn’t support you, rewards mediocre employees who aren’t good at their jobs, and the Dewberrys suck every last nickel they can out of the business units. Business units actually rent their furniture from the main company as part of their overhead. Lots of issues with sexism, racism, backwards thinking, and the people in HR are some of the worst culprits. Below market compensation, laughable vacation time (2 weeks for the first five years), low 401k match. When several offices had to close down in Texas due to hurricanes, the company technically kept the offices open and required employees to take leave so they wouldn’t have to pay for the time. Then they bragged internally about their leave-sharing policy, allowing other employees to donate leave to the hurricane victims, like it was a good deed on their parts. Th idea of “The Dewberry Way” being a supportive family-like culture is smoke and mirrors designed to convince employees to be satisfied with less. Constantly undersupplied in offices and painfully obvious that the bottom line is all that matters.