Good Company, Good Colleagues, OK Managment - Structural Engineering Designer Stantec Employee Review

3.0
14 Jan 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Company really takes care of you. You get the feeling that corporate cares about it's employees. Paid time off between Xmas and New Year's is a huge bonus! The company and management has a huge focus on employee development, although it's a DIY philosophy.

Cons

Management can be mediocre or absent (physically). The working attitude of the office (and the company) is to maximize the billable hours. Projects aren't extremely interesting or high exposure. Mentoring isn't a huge thing here. The office relies on autonomy and learning from your own mistakes as opposed to managers imparting knowledge.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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