GHD reviews

Their management style was terrible. I worked there for 2 months. They had me watch these training videos the first two weeks with little contact with other employees. And despite having 3 years experience, I still had to be "certified" or watched by someone with less experience, before being on my own. They also expected me 6 weeks in to find stuff to work on with no help from a project manager, despite the restrictions they placed on me for what I was "qualified" to work on. And then the project managers were angry with me because I was struggling ton find stuff to work on. They also are really picky about little things like timesheets, and they have no issue with pestering you about it when you take PTO.

Well where do we start here. Let's say just about everything. Bonus program sucks and is non existent unless you can bill out 50 hours a week on salary. Oh and if you do that good luck not getting yelled at by PMs. You get paid straight time for all the hours you work past 43 hours a week, that's your bonus. Management is a joke, most people at this company have no clue what they are doing or how to run a job but yet justify a 6 figure salary. The work is such low quality and so mindless it offers no challenge what so ever. Total repetitive junk work. This place relies on 1-2 huge municipal contract jobs and gets a giant fee. Then half the office destroys the budget because they finally have billable time. Speaking of billable time, you better stay billable or your not meeting your production requirements. Then when you charge a job too much you get yelled at, then when you start charging overhead instead. Guess what... you get yelled at for that as well. So you figure that one out. It's ok for PMs to beat budgets to death so they fill out there time sheet but you charge 2 hours for working on something, you get a call asking why did that task take you so long? We can now move onto principals and management. They will lie to your face and claim there is so much opportunity and so much chance to grow your career. Really there is none, they don't give salary increases or if they do have fun with your 1 percent raise. The way to get ahead here is not through hard work but by joining the boys club and get ready to pucker up. Oh now the merger, GHD was great before. Now with CRA where do I start. Maybe safety, we are now a culture of ISO 5000 safety certified garbage. You better attend the safety meetings and fill out incident reports or you'll be considered insubordinate and get written up. Don't run with scissors, look both ways before crossing the road, what should you do about a paper cut? Hmmm I just dont know if I could ever survive without them telling me. Also now if you want to do training or go to a seminar have fun having 4 principals sign off on forms, normally your group manager would do this but no not any more. Culture is a nightmare, such a divide between CRA and GHD people. Do yourself a favor and never work here.