Beware - misleading job, bad office culture. - Environmental Scientist GHD Employee Review

1.0
Jan 3, 2025
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Pros

If you are looking to break into environmental work or consulting, and you can tolerate a subpar experience, then this is the job for you.

Cons

Office culture will expect you to work outside your normal working hours of 9-5. The longest week I worked was 72 hours. Expect to make frequent trips across the southeast to do menial and repetitive work. Inefficient spread of resources across workers. A few of my experiences with this company: -dishonest. I was sent on a 1 week work trip that extended into 2 months. Required extremely much more manual labor than I was told to expect. -hiring process. They are willing to tell you what you want to hear to get you on board with them. I was told my responsibilities would change a few months into my employment. I followed up with supervisors on this, but they never changed. -coworkers. Certain coworkers made my job much harder than it had to be, including micromanagement and prying for personal information. Beware

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jun 19, 2026
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Pros

Great starting point as an internship, gives you good experience to the professional and consulting world, pay for an engineering intern is satisfactory. Values of the company and support from coworkers is appreciated. Seems to be a psychologically safe place to work and make mistakes. No noticeable workplace toxicity or politics. Everyone seems to be authentic and chill. Not noticing anyone keeping their heads down and received reports of satisfaction with work environment from coworkers. Exposure to a variety of projects, including field work experiences. Seems to be a solid resume builder.

Cons

Need to be pretty proactive for work. For me who enjoys having work to do, its kind of stressful. You have to take initiative in making your own plan. For someone who thrives in structure and needs a bit of help in planning, this is a struggle. Limited flexibility in doing a hybrid role (even though job description stated it was when I applied) For someone who is 42 mi from the office and with heavy traffic takes 1h 15 min to reach the office, its a struggle. But I understood that my commute time is longer than average when I took the position.

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