Fair, Meritocracy, Good Career Opprotunities - Anonymous employee Stantec Employee Review

4.0
7 Aug 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Excellent coworkers with a wide knowledge and experience base, steady employee retention, rewards ambitious and self-motivated employees with career opportunities, challenging and interesting projects.

Cons

Uncompetitive pay and vacation rates, average benefits, workplace culture was better in the past, inconsistent enforcement of policies between departments. Some policies make Stantec look really stingy and that they don't trust their employees.

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Pros

Hybrid Work and access to useful engineering tools

Cons

Projects are inconsistent in organization and structure (some good some bad). High (and strict) utilization requirements of >93% for entry level and mid level engineers results in overtime with overlapping work loads to avoid any downtime between projects. No development or mentorship strategy around work assignments, the main goal is to keep utilization up. Stantec has been very focused on cutting costs by offshoring, limiting conference attendance, reducing volunteer hours, no tuition reimbursement, multiple layers of approvals to attend in-office CPR training, etc. Very corporate environment and top heavy management with over 240+ “Vice Presidents” currently at the company. Difficult to get raises/promotions besides annual raise. Typical raise is ~3-5% with a good review depending on where your current salary is in relation to the pay range for your career level.

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