AECOM reviews

Bureaucracy, bureaucracy, bureaucracy. Swaddled in red tape. So much employee training that it seems like the company does it to cover their behinds. Whenever I asked HR for information, they would refer me to some obscure, difficult to find webpage that often needed interpretation by the same person who told me to look there. The intranet function for reporting hours worked against various projects is arcane and complicated, even for someone with great familiarity with computers.

Upper management doesn't have a clue. They tend to make decisions based solely on numbers or on the advice of consultants who apparently have no idea what they are talking about. Complete lack of communication from upper management to the lower levels on the most basic things (such as how to get your job done or who to contact when help is needed). They constantly send out memos from the president which mean nothing to most of the employees instead of spending much needed time and energy giving concise and clear directions to employees on what they are expected to do in their jobs. They also tend to fire easily, and at times, unfairly.