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.