Arcadis reviews

3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(4,544 total reviews)
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57% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Arcadis has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 4,544 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Arcadis employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Jun 29, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Too few and too incidental to name. At best, it is a steady paycheck until you find a more promising opportunity. Entry-level engineers can gain experience in technical endeavors, but any participation in marketing efforts is highly unlikely and even discouraged (but only implicitly, never explicitly).

Cons

Extremely short-term, unsustainable thinking by management: micromanaging billable hours on a weekly basis at the expense of planning for long term growth. Executive level managers seem to have no clue how to incentivize or reward excellence, and they seem to have no understanding that work comes through getting to know clients on a personal level, not the reverse. Current management is leading the charge towards the complete commoditization of the engineering profession by always making decisions based solely on cost and never on value.

1.0
Jun 20, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It is a large company, and lot of interesting projects world wide. The company is always interested in acquiring new companies, people.

Cons

ARCADIS is a very large company with very little knowledge of what the company does or teams do internally. Lot of silos. If you are interested in a project or area, it is very hard to align yourself and actually learn through it, unless you know someone. It is all about relation ship, and who you know that can advocate for you, rather than what you can do. they are always about getting rid of existing people, and hiring new folks. Lots of discrimination amongst current employees and other acquired companies by the management.

3.0
Jun 8, 2016

Great company losing their way

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits and a Remote Worker policy that is very good. Great people to work with in all departments.

Cons

Starting to outsource a lot of jobs from accounting, engineering, IT, etc. A lot of negative vibes going around that used to not exist as much through the company globally.

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