GHD reviews

3.5

61% would recommend to a friend

(1,895 total reviews)
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68% 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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2.0
Feb 14, 2024

Don't Join Digital

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Pros

Decent benefits, 401k match, accrued PTO, and 2 weeks off end of year. Lot of focus past few years on improving employee experience by introducing new benefits such as mentorship, youth leadership programs, and paid parental leave for all parents. The Core business is decent and where you want to be

Cons

Digital is a rapidly imploding organization and dying business. Go somewhere else and save your career. Technical roles are highly pigeonholed and have little to no upward mobility. Expect to come into a technical role, stay there, and only get more of the same projects on your resume. Leadership roles are forced to chase employees down for meaningless internal metrics rather than focusing on growing the business. The oldest businesses in the group have struggled to innovate and grow while competitors have gone miles ahead. Despite many market examples, these groups have completely failed to adapt and invest. This does not seem to be changing anytime soon. Digital staff are billed at ridiculous premiums, making you less attractive to your Core counterparts who own client relationships. Good luck trying to stay competitive and finding projects to bill to. Expect annual salary raises of 2-3% while your billing rate (and cost of living) goes up by more than that. The group releases marketing content trying to look like a top rated digital consultancy but it is far from the image it portrays itself as.

1.0
Aug 15, 2020

Stay AWAY!

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Pros

A small fraction of the people working there are delightful.... until they get frustrated and quit, which they all do.

Cons

Almost everything! Management, Pay, Benefits, no bonuses, no work-life balance, hostile and toxic environment...etc. If you aren't constantly putting in serious overtime (that you aren't compensated for) you are shamed, labelled as lazy and/or dead weight and will never be promoted or receive any sort of salary increase. It is very much a "shut up and do what you're told" kind of work place. A recent meeting outlining the 2021 strategy ended with a Q&A session where the Principal was asked what he felt was the biggest obstacle to achieving the new business goals, and his response was "free thinkers". Like, WTF! The constantly fire people who they consider "troublemakers", which again, is anyone who is a 'free thinker' and won't just shut up and do what they are told. Also, if you aren't a white, male engineer.... just don't even bother. You will never get anywhere and any dreams you had of a successful career will be forever destroyed. Please, please listen to me - I lived in this dystopian workplace for over 10 years - and wouldn't wish my experiences on anyone!

1.0
Oct 4, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are okay, PTO accrues quickly if you negotiated well, however work/life balance doesn't allow you to use any of it.

Cons

GHD Australia should sell GHD NA. The office I was in didn't function efficiently at all. The Principal was sexist and clearly did not know anything about the environmental industry or how to manage people. We weren't paid enough and the men in the office were paid higher. I was a supervisor and had no control on how my employees were paid or rewarded. The Principal in that office also loved to reward mediocrity, especially in white men. If you say "EHS" or "waste" a lot, he'll just assume you know what your'e talking about even when you don't. Multiple clients have said they do not want him involved in their accounts at all. Several reports have been made to HR regarding his behavior yet he hasn't been fired or reprimanded at all. In order to move up in GHD, you have to continuously buy more shares because the company is "employee owned." They normally offer you between 5K-6K shares for your first time, which amounts to over $10,000. If you don't have the money to pay for it, don't worry, GHD will help you finance with a lender they've already set up. Once you buy shares, you'll be asked to buy more and more, eventually going into substantial debt. I was told in order to become associate, you have to buy shares and KEEP buying shares.

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