very good company with engaged leadership - Intermediate Structural Designer CDM Smith Employee Review

4.0
Feb 22, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The company seems to take an active role in keeping employees engaged, busy and satisfied. Maintaining a smaller firm footprint, they take on, and successfully complete much larger projects.

Cons

The only Con I have at this time is the same as with most companies today. Everything is "self serve" so you have to be an expert in your field as well as with HR, Payroll... This practice needs to end. I can't do my job and manage the every changing world of HR at the same time.

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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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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.
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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