Equally Positive and Negative for Entry Level - Environmental Scientist HDR Employee Review

I wish I could give this a 2.5 rating. My experience was equally negative and positive. There was very little on the job training (although this allowed me to learn a great deal of independence and learning) and my only boss in the environmental side and only coworker both left me to work the entire week alone my second week working here. There is a lot of stress on meeting your utilization goal which can be difficult in the environmental department depending on the time of year as the winter months have very little billable hours. I felt like I was always playing catch up or having to fib on my hours actually spent and then stressing about that constantly. Management was very distant and I felt alone in a lot of projects and learning with no where to bill my time to for things that should just be a given as on the job training. I made friends with a lot of the Engineers in Training and they seemed to have similar struggles but the engineering department always had much more billable time and projects backed up compared to the environmental department in my office.