Senior Project Manager - Senior Project Manager CDM Smith Employee Review

1.0
Dec 30, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Employee owned, large, long established, and project diverse firm, allowing the potential for challenging project work throughout the globe. Specializing in water and wastewater projects, is a full service company able to manage multi-million dollar projects.

Cons

Too many layers of management who fail to bring value added to projects, yet impact project profitability. Firm concentrates on large scale projects, making it very difficult to break in with new clients where you have to establish a track record with small projects, building up to large ones. Trying to expand globally, but has no clear vision or commitment for an effective expansion.

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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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