Pros
Most staff and middle management on the technical side are collaborative and friendly to work with - willing to spend time in technical knowledge sharing. Allows a young engineer to grow in terms of technical skills quickly, and provides a fair number of leadership opportunities when projects are available. Opportunities to grow with the company from technical and/or Project Management streams, or move into Business Development side. Office located in Markham, good location for those engineers who do not wish to go work out west.
Cons
As the organization is currently not growing due to challenges in the resources sector as a whole, the opportunities mentioned in the "Pros" section have mostly dried up. Departmental consolidations yielded synergies that were marginal at best. Other cost-cutting measures were evident and had eroded employee morale over time. Organizational culture and strategy do not trickle down well. Company expanded from rapid growth through acquisitions, which led to large variations in culture between offices, and incompatibilities were rarely if ever addressed. The culture of the two original Toronto offices (before acquisition) were much better than what the eventual culture became as part of WorleyParsons. From a project management perspective, the hierarchy leans towards a reverse pyramid, with more managers (technical and projects) than there were engineers and designers, leading to directives that were oftentimes conflicting. Salaries generally lower than what is offered out west by a significant margin. This is generally true for any engineering company with Alberta vs. Ontario offices.