Fair Company - Anonymous employee CDM Smith Employee Review
3.0
Feb 2, 2023
Anonymous employee
Current employee, more than 10 years
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Strong client base. Fair managers.
Cons
Imperfect project schedules. Unclear team responsiblitites
CDM Smith Response
3y
We love our clients and are thrilled you like to work with them. We are constantly striving to stay as a top choice employer, so we appreciate your constructive feedback.
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.