Environmental Division Review Only - Anonymous employee CDM Smith Employee Review

4.0
Apr 9, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Many brilliant people working here. Flexible work options.

Cons

Utilization is a big driver for pay. Feast or famine workload. The need to travel to stay busy. Project management career path requirements unclear and often change.

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5.0
Jul 9, 2026
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Pros

Opportunities for growth Fellow employees Autonomous work environment

Cons

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2.0
Jun 18, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible hybrid schedule is very nice and starting salary is high for early career engineers.

Cons

The main people running the company are not engineers and you can tell. They are all focused on utilization with rates often set at 97% or higher. This had led to my supervisor asking/telling me to not charge company required trainings. As an early engineer it really feels like they don't want to invest in me and only care about their bottom line. If you are an early career structural engineer you will also not get any meaningful work until you've been with the company for at least 5 years. The senior engineers do not trust you and will only give you grunt work.

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