No team infrastructure - Fire Protection Designer Stantec Employee Review

2.0
16 Dec 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Decent technical support (laptop, company phone, software etc.) - Great online learning tools - One of the big giants in the construction industry - Large-scale projects nationwide and abroad. - Work-from-Home environment - Some professionals with great depth of experience - Pay is above average

Cons

- The office is severely lacking team culture. WFH environment makes it worse. - You are on your own, you won't be backed up by your FP engineer unlike other departments. You are exposed to all criticisms and responsibilities from both sides from engineers/supervisor and client whilst you are not given any support along the way. - Everyone looks exhausted and fatigued from working overtime. - Politics and drama here an there. Everyone tries to look pretty in front of their supervisor/client by throwing colleagues/designers under the bus. - There are reasons why you are paid above market.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
15 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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