GHD reviews

Company culture went downhill fast after my former company (CRA) merged with GHD in 2015. I was also expected to be available 24/7 electronically, so work/life balance was horrible. There were also few opportunities to move up, having a Principle/Associate/Worker management structure. The company is also heavily slanted towards the engineering disciplines, so chemists were always seen as a necessary evil at best. There was also a quantity over quality bias towards work, so it was necessary to clock a minimum of total hours of which a significant portion needed to be billable to a client project.

This is a company (and office) that does not care about your personal life at all. I was required to travel all the time, for at least 2 weeks at a time, even with kids at home. If you can't do that, then expect to be let go. They even let a very pregnant co-worker go during the recent layoffs. After I witnessed that, I started looking for another job. I easily found one with better pay that didn't require me to travel nearly as much.