CDM Smith reviews

4.1

84% would recommend to a friend

(930 total reviews)
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Timothy B. Wall

93% approve of CEO

82% positive business outlook

CDM Smith has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 930 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The CDM Smith employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.6 stars).

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930 reviews
1.0
Dec 30, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Employee owned, large, long established, and project diverse firm, allowing the potential for challenging project work throughout the globe. Specializing in water and wastewater projects, is a full service company able to manage multi-million dollar projects.

Cons

Too many layers of management who fail to bring value added to projects, yet impact project profitability. Firm concentrates on large scale projects, making it very difficult to break in with new clients where you have to establish a track record with small projects, building up to large ones. Trying to expand globally, but has no clear vision or commitment for an effective expansion.

2.0
Sep 3, 2015

Project Engineer

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

CDM is a good place to work for recent college graduates. They offer a variety of projects to new engineers and their starting salaries as competitive.

Cons

Management gives mediocre annual raises. Project managers worry about their budgets more than the people that they supervise. Most people at CDM do not like their job.

3.0
Jul 17, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great coworkers, learned a lot, talented engineers.

Cons

Poor compensation, lack of leadership.

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