Stantec Sounds Great No Chance of Growing - Environmental Scientist Stantec Employee Review

1.0
Sep 16, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Some of the best reasons to work for Stantec: - The ability to work in a large variety of locations across multiple provinces. - Work with a large variety of customers and clients allowing one to meet a large variety of people and make contacts

Cons

Some of the cons to working for Stantec: - They hire you with the expectation you'll receive training and get to advance in education and within the office. Neither occurs. - Upon being hired they say, we may pay for more education (i.e., Master's Degrees) - You will get laughed at when you bring this up again to management. Many reasons you will receive - no funding, you do not require it, you are not qualified or you are not the one who needs it most - You are expected to have a work / life balance but at the end of the day you say no to working late then you get slapped on the wrist - Raises are non existent - Get laid off for less then 7 working days to then be hired back on and then work 60 hour work weeks to then be laid off again once slow (Reminder - Not a seasonal worker) - Morale of all workers very poor.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
May 15, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Hybrid Work and access to useful engineering tools

Cons

Projects are inconsistent in organization and structure (some good some bad). High (and strict) utilization requirements of >93% for entry level and mid level engineers results in overtime with overlapping work loads to avoid any downtime between projects. No development or mentorship strategy around work assignments, the main goal is to keep utilization up. Stantec has been very focused on cutting costs by offshoring, limiting conference attendance, reducing volunteer hours, no tuition reimbursement, multiple layers of approvals to attend in-office CPR training, etc. Very corporate environment and top heavy management with over 240+ “Vice Presidents” currently at the company. Difficult to get raises/promotions besides annual raise. Typical raise is ~3-5% with a good review depending on where your current salary is in relation to the pay range for your career level.

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