Top notch environmental and transport firm lets you excel if you treat your time as a 'career' instead of a 'job' - Env Engineer CDM Smith Employee Review

5.0
Apr 8, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

- Great recognition in the municipal marketplace and merger of CDM and Wibur Smith expands the presence - Financially sound - Opportunities for global assignments - Colleagues with great technical abilities

Cons

- Big company with weak project management systems creates some busywork - Need to be your own advocate - Heavy focus on cash management during recession - good for the company, but painful to staff.

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5.0
Apr 22, 2026
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Pros

Lots of training and opportunities

Cons

Company structure can be confusing

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CDM Smith Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave us a 5-star review! It was great to have you as an employee and wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
3.0
May 8, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to work. Flexibility, work from home options available. Tons of opportunities across multiple disciplines. Work life balance is great. The people are awesome.

Cons

Pay is unfortunately on the really low end of the industry. A lot of turnover because people leave in order to get a better salary due to the low pay. I also don’t like that your manager (RTL) is also a manager for 20-30 people, and you are all under one large group instead of various teams. The matrix system is a bit odd to me.

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CDM Smith Response
1w
Thank you for taking the time to write your review. We appreciate your feedback and will keep it in mind when making future decisions to keep us as a top-choice employer. We are thrilled to hear that you liked working with us and valued the flexibility we offer. We too agree, the people are awesome!!
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