Pros
The company has committed to being a Great Place to Work and is regularly soliciting feedback from employees and responding to concerns or issues. The company is high-tech and on the cutting edge of many engineering and GIS applications, ahead of many other firms. This is exciting and leads to lots of opportunities to grow and learn with the firm and stay ahead both personally and as a company. The company has committed to providing work-life balance. The firm invests in its people and provides and pays for training and professional organization memberships to advance careers and keep performance on top. At Woolpert, I feel like most any training request I have will be approved (and paid for) as long as it relates to my job and each person works with their manager to create an individualized training plan and 2 year and 5 year goals. Our projects are challenging and diverse. It is also a good team atmosphere with generally minimal conflicts - it feels like we are all working together towards a goal. Everyone feels like they have ownership and buy-in on projects and decisions.
Cons
There have been some growing pains, and some groups could use reorganization given the level of growth achieved over the last few years to balance out manager loads and number of people supervised. Too many employees under one manager makes it more difficult for the manager to be involved and responsive to each employee, and may make them seem more distant.