Commoditising Consulting Engineering - Anonymous employee NDY Employee Review

1.0
Aug 18, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good, competent colleagues, 5 weeks paid leave, health and income insurance.

Cons

Burn-out work schedule, and really a Mechanical Engineering Consultancy pretending to provide other building services etc. as part of the package, with no backing, recognition, or career progression outside of core HVAC services. Has a problem of awarding only 'show pony' 'engineers', problems equating employee IP contributions to the bottom line. Bonus scheme is an absolute joke and meaningless to unobtainable - discount this as part of any salary package. Bean counting trumps customer needs, and eventually breaks client trust. Rewards corporate as a profit centre without recognising where contributions come from. Iffy (at best) HR practices. Poor Australian management practices. Utterly awful paranoid IT - over 6 months to have approved (project required) engineering software installed.

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3.0
May 22, 2018
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Pros

Work goes by slow bc everything is done by hand but friendly environment!

Cons

Did not have a set schedule

2.0
Jul 26, 2025
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Pros

There have certainly been good moments here, and I’ve had the privilege of working with some truly great colleagues.

Cons

Very little investment (actually none) is made in the London team when it comes to development and support. Even basic CPD requests were a struggle, yet the company seems willing to spend big to fly people in from NZ or AUS for temporary help when things go wrong. It’s hard not to feel like the local team is overlooked. There’s a strong sense that keeping clients happy comes above all else, even if that leads to burnout. When complaints come in from clients, the default response is often to point fingers rather than ask the team what actually happened. It feels like there’s more interest in assigning blame than in understanding and fixing the real issues, which only adds more pressure to an already stretched team.

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