Dewberry reviews

I was, completely out of the blue, fired one day. I had never had an evaluation. I was brought in half way thru a project that was horribly over budget and I was let go. The person training me was the persons whose job I was taking over. It seemed like a conflict. That person is still an employee there.

Most GIS positions are not very technical. Whether it's floodplain maps, LiDAR, imagery, whatever, you are working in a production line producing widgets, it's not creative work. Dewberry is a constellation of business units, each one is different and basically their own company. Some are better than others. In turn, HR/corporate does not support you. Positive/negative reviews reflect that business unit and that business unit only. Dewberry will keep all of its offices no matter what, whether that's due to snow around headquarters in Fairfax or a hurricane is destroying the Gulf Coast. Employees were required to use their own leave during these events and then Dewberry would brag about employee leave sharing policies (employees donating vacation time so those affected by disaster won't lose a paycheck). Close the office and provide emergency leave to employees affected. Many long term, career employees have never been outside of Dewberry and do not know what else there is. Being the sole contractor/vendor on a federal program for 30 years only created tunnel vision and the inability to think differently or adapt. One direct result is that the federal program, largely staffed by former Dewberry employees, clearly did not like working with the Dewberry PM.