Best Company So Far - Anonymous employee CDM Smith Employee Review
5.0
Jul 8, 2025
Anonymous employee
Current employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Great Place to Work
Amazing work culture
Cons
Nothing that I can think of
CDM Smith Response
10mo
Thank you for your outstanding feedback on our work culture and environment—it's inspiring to hear such enthusiasm! We truly appreciate you sharing your positive experience.
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.