Stantec reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(3,579 total reviews)
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Gord Johnston

79% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Stantec has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 3,579 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Stantec employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Jun 29, 2010

Wonderful co-workers and clients

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great group of people to work with; able to work with people from various disciplines and dynamic clients; good benefits

Cons

Somewhat disconnected since the company tends to acquire various firms and blend them into Stantec in order to achieve results for shareholders

2.0
Jun 27, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

- Worked on some pretty large scale and visible projects, ones that people recognize. - Lots of resources to back you up. If you didn't know something, guaranteed that someone would be able to provide you the answer in the company. - Average age of the staff, in my office anyways, was fairly young. Great atmosphere and lots of energy, made a ton of really good personal friends working there. - Well respected and knowledgeable senior staff. Many great mentors.

Cons

- Company was way too focused on the bottom line. The way the company operates is simliar to the way things were back in 2004-2007 when there was too much work and profits were juicy. In this economy, it is impossible to maintain those profit margins. This lead to thousands of layoffs. - Senior staff were spread out too thin. Most of our PMs were at the Principal, VP or SVP level. There was a high level chargeability expected for these individuals which took away from their administrative work. - Little in the way of career development. Feedback was usually only provided once a year during your annual review. Final rankings were based on a exceeds/meets/does not meet expectations scale, which generally meant that 90% of staff fell into the meets expectations category. - HR was useless. Our HR advisor took days to get back to you. - Company is extremely top and admin heavy. If you look at the Company's financial results, almost half of the corporate expenses is in the senior management, HR, marketing and corporate services area. - Bad corporate attitude. The view of senior management is that "we are the best, because we are the best". Very narrow minded view, especially coming from the client side. - Little in the way of corporate communication. Most of what was sent was the typical corporate drivel, which had very little relevance to the day to day operation of the company.

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