Pros
New CEO coming next year. Maybe her leadership and ideals will improve our business. Great people. My coworkers are amazing and fun. Cool company events (once a year). Community involvement. Exciting projects. Although I work in administration, I love hearing about projects we're working on. Generous vacation time (still have to work Christmas Eve and New Years Eve, though).
Cons
Too focused on bottom line. Cut health care plans and make employees pay quadruple out-of-pocket expenses. Give bonuses to senior people already making big bucks, while those struggling to survive receive 1% pay increases (that don't even cover inflation, benefit fees). Cut quality and replace with quantity to reduce overhead. Major foreign firm acquisitions to hide the fact they can't pay out for employee-owned company stock. It's all about buy buy buy. Senior employees have more invested in employee stock than CH2M Hill can cover. To balance this, they buy other engineering firms (VECO, Halcrow) and fire most of their upper-level (read: EXPENSIVE) employees shortly after acquisition. Laying off (or worse, demoting to part-time) experienced engineers and replace with fresh-out-of-college, cheap engineers. Managers unethical, over-sharers. I know way more about my coworkers' medical conditions than I should. I can't trust upper management, nor HR. Good employees leaving CH2M Hill for competing firms, and in turn, losing large clients and projects. Business groups are like islands. No groups are alike or even communicate. Their practices and behaviors are like oil and water. Displaying and distributing The Little Yellow Book (company ideals written by a co-founder) is a little degrading at this point. It focuses on keeping employees and clients happy, which CH2M Hill hasn't considered in years.
