Decent place to work, but the pay wasn’t good - Environmental Scientist GHD Employee Review

3.0
2 Dec 2025
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Pros

GHD hired me with very little experience. Basically just a degree. They also have environmental jobs for people without degrees. I learned a lot about emergency response and remediation. I was able to work on both the emergency response and contamination remediation and assessment teams, which gave me a great base of experience with equipment and field work. The company provides 15 days of paid military leave for reservists.

Cons

The hours were rarely steady. Sometimes I would be stretching 20 hours of work to fill 40, and other times I’d have 80-90 hours in a week. For my first year, the company didn’t pay overtime to salaried employees. Pay was mediocre at best, and I only got two 1.5% pay raises in three years. One of them I had to actively fight for. The company would be turning a profit every month and then tell us they couldn’t afford pay raises.

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5.0
28 May 2026
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Pros

Evolving with the times to best serve client needs. Investing in employee learning. Attracting high caliber talent.

Cons

Change can feel disruptive for some, but GHD is on a disciplined journey.

4.0
19 Jun 2026
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Pros

Great starting point as an internship, gives you good experience to the professional and consulting world, pay for an engineering intern is satisfactory. Values of the company and support from coworkers is appreciated. Seems to be a psychologically safe place to work and make mistakes. No noticeable workplace toxicity or politics. Everyone seems to be authentic and chill. Not noticing anyone keeping their heads down and received reports of satisfaction with work environment from coworkers. Exposure to a variety of projects, including field work experiences. Seems to be a solid resume builder.

Cons

Need to be pretty proactive for work. For me who enjoys having work to do, its kind of stressful. You have to take initiative in making your own plan. For someone who thrives in structure and needs a bit of help in planning, this is a struggle. Limited flexibility in doing a hybrid role (even though job description stated it was when I applied) For someone who is 42 mi from the office and with heavy traffic takes 1h 15 min to reach the office, its a struggle. But I understood that my commute time is longer than average when I took the position.

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