When your owners sell.... Get your resume out - time to move on - Anonymous employee Stantec Employee Review

1.0
Apr 29, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Worker bees are friendly. My old office folks are nice. My commute was easy New collaborative tolols coming. Pros are very thin

Cons

Pay is below national norms They expect to loose 20% of staff every year Your management sells put and are told "nothing wil change" and they are naive or vulnerable enough to believe it Then the layoffs and pay cuts come. Then the structure changes so design is second or third fiddle to profits The stock market is short selling this stock because the business model of buying other firms cutting past the bone and then buying the next one doesn't work It is run by a bully who the other leaders are afraid of (not the nice Canadian CEO) They buy you for what you bring to them. It is a one way street. Our leaders are bailing out now that their agreements let them. Time to get the resume out. Thank goodness the market is picking up

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