VERY LAST OPTION - Estimator/Engineer Cogan Metal Employee Review

Great place to learn how to be a professional, develop skill to work on multiple projects, learn how to manage your time, good experience with communicating with customers, decent medical insurance and working with a great team. NEVER have to bring home work. Again, SUPER friendly staff, who will not only help you with your work and make you feel comfortable but you'll definitely make a few friends and get along easily with most of them.

Number 1 issue at Cogan is salary. Well below market value for junior engineers. Working hard and being a good team player didn't have it's reward. Wasn't able to reach 50k (approximate minimum market value for junior engineers) after almost 4 years! Difficult to find a design position as a Civil Engineer after Cogan due to lack of professional development, exposure to structural design and experience (unless you wouldn't mind a project management or estimation job for you're next job). I strongly recommend to go back to school to get your masters (yes it's true, there are much MORE better opportunities with higher education) and continue looking for another position on Indeed or LinkedIn even if it takes you over a year to kick start your career. After 5+ years you'll potentially become a key member at Cogan with a more reasonable salary but other than that you're just a pawn getting by slowly. I understand this was a negative review but if the starting salary had been market value (which may increase with all the recent revolving door of engineers), I could have seen myself working at Cogan much much longer.

The pros are job security, they hire fresh grads.

I have never seen that much of Unhappy employees crammed in one place, almost everyone is unhappy with their life there, The salaries are the bare minimum actually after factoring out the costs of a car(You must buy a car to be able to go their location) it comes out very close to minimum wage, the benefits are the least amount they could give to remain in the bounds of the law. all the profits goes to the owner of the company they don't invest in their employees. avoid at all costs. The experience gained there is useless in the real market (engineers do customer service and drafting that's all). You only have 3 sick days and No RRSP contributions.