HDR Pittsburgh - Anonymous employee HDR Employee Review

1.0
Apr 24, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some co-workers are nice and supportive.

Cons

The HDR Pittsburgh office is the worst. They form cliques and if anyone within the clique feels threatened by you then you have no future in the company. The definition of their leadership is to find a scape goat to cover up for the failures and managers just assign blame to engineers while doing whatever they please. Some managers lack any leadership skills that they layoff any staff reporting to them and retain just 2 of their "best buddies" to make it seem they have a team. They go around harassing people just to have a sense of control. Micro management is something they love to do. They will even tell you how to click your mouse pointer if they could, while they themselves are capable of nothing.

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5.0
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Pros

Excellent structure and procedures in all areas of business

Cons

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1.0
Jul 13, 2026
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Pros

The 401k is good, that's it..

Cons

The main complaint is having to beg for work within the company. They don't have enough work to give you and then complain that your overhead is too high. Communication and training is terrible. I've sent numerous emails to coworkers only to be ignored. You have to keep reaching out for someone to respond to you. The project managers also don't budget the labor for their projects well. They're very tight about how many hours you should spend on an assignment and it's often unreasonable, like read and compare a 600+ page document to a 300+ page technical document in 2 work days. The health insurance sucks too. Things that used to be covered are no longer covered such as basic labs. The insurance carrier is always denying services such as an MRI.

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