Arcadis reviews

The company has been changing since it acquired Malcolm Pirnie in 2009. Many people were unhappy with the changes and left in the next few years. Some returned after the legacy Malcolm Pirnie leadership moved on. The last few years the Water business line has shifted from its traditional water/wastewater engineering focus to more consulting service, asset management, and information technology/networking/cyber-security focus. The company has also talked about shifting to a greater focus on buried infrastructure (i.e., pipelines) but has seemed not to be able to make the actual shift. The company is traded on the European stock exchange. The company's stock price plummeted 60% since the beginning of the year, then recovered to a net 40% loss most recently.

1. Too much change - mergers, changing goals, loss of great employees 2. Too much focus on corporate and not enough local focus - managers have to worry too much about answering to corporate and not enough time answering to local personnel needs/morale 3. They often set the bar too high. Don't get me wrong it's great to push for success but you can't always expect success 4. Hard to maintain work life balance 5. Like most consulting jobs sometimes can be very demanding (time and otherwise) 6. Too focused on yesterday's numbers and less focused on the outcomes and future