So-so - Anonymous employee CDM Smith Employee Review
3.0
Jan 2, 2024
Anonymous employee
Current employee, more than 1 year
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
Training budgets are reasonable (conferences, external opportunities) as well as a variety of internal courses
Cons
Leadership/management does not seem to make decisions that benefit the office in delivering projects, resulting in lowered morale
CDM Smith Response
2y
It's great to have you as part of our team at CDM Smith. We appreciate you taking the time to write this review. We encourage you to reach out to your HRBP with your concerns to make sure they are addressed.
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.