GROSS! - Project Designer HDR Employee Review

3.0
Jun 27, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Nice people, good benefits. Operations focused, management and technical production. If you have interest in professional organization, they are fairly supportive. If you want to be a specialist, they will love it.

Cons

It depends on the office, some are satellites, some are specific to a project, or engineering discipline, some are regional hubs. Very stratified- beyond all the diversity, equity marketing the place is run by mid western white boys with brown people doing all the heavy lifting. All the architectural design (in this enormous) 13,000 people corporation is done by a handful of people on the east coast. All that happens elsewhere is management and technical production. If you are looking for a 9 to 5 without too much of a mental commitment this place is for you. The operations are rigid and set from an abstract distance so it is blunt. If you are an architect this feels more like an engineering environment, the creative and artistic side of the profession is non existent for 99% of the company.

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5.0
Jul 2, 2026
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Pros

Excellent structure and procedures in all areas of business

Cons

Role involved a lot of remote support whereas I prefer hands on, but overall excellent company.

1.0
Jul 13, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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