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      CDM Smith

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      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

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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
      1.0
      Aug 22, 2017

      Vice President

      Vice president - technology
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Great colleagues; great immediate boss

      Cons

      Terrible upper management; far too much red tape; far too much emphasis on billing hours as opposed to quality work; senior management is very very bad.

      2.0
      Aug 20, 2017

      Project Manager

      Project manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      CDM Smith is an international corporation, they have a great international team of high skilled, world class Gurus in all technical areas.

      Cons

      The company manager, ate least at country level doesn't fulfill its labor conditions commitments.

      3.0
      Aug 16, 2017

      Gone Downhill

      Staff scientist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Competitive Salaries and multiple locations within the US. Many good people in many offices to work with. It is also difficult to advance if starting as a field staff in the environmental division.

      Cons

      Insane focus on utilization. The pattern seems to be when your UT drops and you charge admin time due to lack of work, you are let go. This is compounded by the extremely poor management style in many offices, especially the Western US, and distribution of work. With recent lawsuit payout for millions for inept work and corruption on several build projects internationally and nationally, CDM personnel have suffered a large round of firings and now suffer a big brother style tally system for projected UT. Also, with the recent firings and 'reorg' as they call it, CDM Smith could be preparing to eliminate their environmental departments all together. All staff to advance and come out of the field.

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