Career advancement, diversity of projects, management are eager to help you do the work you are interested in. An impressive array of intelligent and well-studied people work here.
Cons
A slightly overworked culture, lower than average starting salaries
CDM Smith Response
2y
Thanks for taking the time to write this review! We are so happy to have you as part of our team.
Flexible hybrid schedule is very nice and starting salary is high for early career engineers.
Cons
The main people running the company are not engineers and you can tell. They are all focused on utilization with rates often set at 97% or higher. This had led to my supervisor asking/telling me to not charge company required trainings. As an early engineer it really feels like they don't want to invest in me and only care about their bottom line.
If you are an early career structural engineer you will also not get any meaningful work until you've been with the company for at least 5 years. The senior engineers do not trust you and will only give you grunt work.