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Sinclair Knight Merz

Acquired by Jacobs

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Sinclair Knight Merz Reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(58 total reviews)
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Santo Rizzuto

67% approve of CEO

26% positive business outlook

Sinclair Knight Merz has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 58 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sinclair Knight Merz employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management and consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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58 reviews
3.0
1 Oct 2017

Good Training

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Internal courses, training, relaxed, no pressure

Cons

Not aggressive enough in winning projects

2.0
9 Sept 2013

Toxic atmosphere internally

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Some good opportunities to progress and travel with the company if you can grasp them - Some interesting projects - Good training opportunities

Cons

- Don't feel secure, feel like I could be made redundant any minute - Slow to react to economic pressures - Complex management structure; including too many seniors and not enough juniors - High fee rates often make SKM uncompetitive - Good values, but a feeling that they're ignored when required - Currently a toxic atmosphere following redundancies and lots of pressure to perform, with different messages coming from different parts of management depending on their person KPIs

1.0
7 Mar 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The only pro.. nice location if you live on the south side.

Cons

If you are not part of the MAMIL cycle club (Middle Aged Men in Lycra) than you get nowhere. Don't work here if you are a woman, don't be fooled by their 'Women in Consulting' promises - you don't get anywhere. There is so many levels of middle management, that makes the entire company extremely top heavy and full of ex shareholders (after Jacobs merger) that just charge to overheads. They made all the wrong people redundant during the GFC and consequent 3-4 rounds of redundancies. The treatment of graduates is very poor, no engagement and very little in the way of professional development opportunities. Make big promises in the interview stage but don't follow through. If you don't achieve CPENG/RPEQ within 4 years of graduation (A pretty hard ask when you don't get to actually work on projects) then you are automatically career limited throughout the company. Expect a lot of unpaid overtime - especially from junior staff. If you question their resourcing policy - you get put on the 'list' and even more limited in your project involvement. Salary reviews are a joke - they don't actually budget for increases ever. The Jacobs acquisition process promises more pain, and they have started a policy of 'don't tell staff anything' instead of the previous SKM policy of 'give some information out on occasion'.

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