GHD reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(1,895 total reviews)
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Ashley Wright

67% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

GHD has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,895 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The GHD employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
Jan 3, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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

2.0
Apr 6, 2023

Suspect management

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Terrific people and technical capabilities, with strong commitment to clients and our mission.

Cons

The business is being managed from Australia (and top leaders in NA were transfers from Australia), so NA business feels like a poor step-child. Management doesn’t live the strategy or values - as the business is run thru looking at weekly utilization spreadsheets and staff are routinely let go without any warning or counseling. This makes the various town halls meaningless and a joke. Management focused mostly on operations and preserving current dividends, and it has hampered growth and strategic investment. Regional businesses work as silos and has created too much internal focus and infighting. Digital business is a mess and is not aligned with the rest of the company.

1.0
Aug 15, 2022

No Team Environment and Poor Management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent pay. Some good, technically competent people.

Cons

This company is riddled with terrible leadership that maintain a greater interest in their own careers than the success of the company. This attitude seeps into every aspect of operations and has created a pretty toxic environment where everyone is out for themselves and having to watch their back. They spend an inordinate amount of time planning for the coming year but resist execution of plans and long-term strategy, thereby stagnating growth. Much of this is an outcome of rapid growth through acquisition and no singular focus or understanding of how to market or operate as a large company.

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