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      CDM Smith

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      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

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      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
      3.0
      Mar 15, 2015

      Administrative

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Excellent benefits - expectations are high and you learn alot.

      Cons

      Too much favoritism if one person does not like you, you feel awkward every day knowing it may be your last - extremely politcal.

      4.0
      Mar 8, 2015

      Good company, with room for improvement

      Structural engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      The company is large enough that you are able to work on some large projects, but still small enough to work on small studies. The project work is interesting and IF you know where to look, there is a good variety of work. The pay is slightly above average and the benefits are great. There are some really good people working for the company who will help you grow as an engineer and will bring you into a solid project team. The company does a great job of sharing work between regions. The work environment in the smaller offices is much better when compared to the larger offices (HQ in Boston and Dallas).

      Cons

      The company's focus on utilization and project profitability cuts in to work life balance and has damaged client relationships. The project management career path is currently non existent, however a new program has just been launched, so there is hope that this will improve. The company has a sometimes favors water treatment and water resources engineers over other disciplines when it comes to being project managers. The company needs to do a better job in identifying good or poor performing employees. The company is large enough for rats to be able to hide, who do nothing but waste budget and throw people under the bus when something goes wrong. Training and career development counts against your utilization.

      1.0
      Apr 30, 2014

      Just terrible!

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      The company have excellent benefits for someone with tough skin!

      Cons

      A lot of bullying and trash talking goes on in this company also other employees should not know the educational background of others or be discussed on the phone for long periods of time by someone that's not even in the same state as the person they are talking about. Was told by my manager you are no allowed to say anything about the bullying

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