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
3.0
Oct 18, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Diverse engineering firm that has some extremely intelligent and skilled people working there. The ability to work across different offices when extra help was needed was really easy, and the ability to connect and network with people who are doing things that you are interested in is a great benefit. Senior leadership is fantastic and supportive of the employees. If you have the initiative, there is great support for training and opportunities to engage in your community.

Cons

Some managers are out of touch. Constant push to use Bangalore India staff when most of the local teams will rarely see the value (i.e. are they really working themselves out of a job so that leadership can see a higher bonus next year? Try as you might to advertise the benefit, junior employees will ALWAYS be skeptical... as they should be.) Project Managers are becoming strictly data sources and data inputters. That's it. Most of us PMs still like to have some engagement in the technical details (or, at least they should be). Don't let the PM's become so disconnected that they lose touch with the details of the project or with the project teams.

1.0
Jun 25, 2019

Former Employee

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay scale for new employees

Cons

Management, Employee turnaround, Time off, Promotion opportunities

3.0
May 23, 2019

Mixed Bag

Recommend
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Pros

Most employees are genuinely passionate about their work. It is an environment that I generally enjoy coming to every day. The company has a wide variety of projects and enough internal latitude to usually work with the teams and projects that are of interest. Work-life balance and flexibility is above average for the industry, but on par with modern work place attitudes. Excellent opportunities to develop from a technical stand point.

Cons

Leadership is pretty out of touch and still maintains an air of "you should feel lucky to have a job here". Compensation is subpar, particularly in competitive regions during an economic boom. Managers would rather hire external candidates than promote from within. Generally there is a disconnect between the brand image of success and the touted employee-centric culture. Performance evaluation is often done by people you have never worked with.

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