Mission driven consulting for the anthroprocene - Mechanical Engineering Manager Ecotope Employee Review

This engineering firm tackles difficult research questions, whose findings feed directly into their engineering design department, which helps inform policy with a strong focus on reducing carbon emissions through means that are researched and tested in real buildings. Working for this company makes you feel like you are accelerating the building sector to a carbon-free future.

This company is relatively small, and though they have been around for a while, they are still figuring out how to make a growing business operate most efficiently. That said, leadership is taking advice from employees to make the company better so employees can make a significant and meaningful impact on the way the company operates.

Work-life balance at Ecotope is excellent and the engineers here are very talented and really know their trade. You will be hard pressed to find better experts on the topic of Heat Pump Water Heating anywhere else in the AEC industry.

Ecotope suffers from really bad management, leadership, and a lack of transparency. The company is essentially run on the whims of the long-standing senior staff who are not open to ideas from any newer/younger professionals. It was both boring and utterly chaotic to work here - with PMs going on PTO during deadline weeks without notifying their subordinates or clients, mass layoffs due to the company's mismanagement of finances (going from bonuses & pay hikes to mass layoffs & furloughs within the space of 3 months), etc. No internal accountability whatsoever.