AECOM reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(11,153 total reviews)
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Troy Rudd

79% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

AECOM has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 11,153 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AECOM employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Servicios de construcción, reparación y mantenimiento industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Mar 25, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

-Mega projects to work on -Flexible working hours -Good benefits

Cons

Company has been transitioning from 5 different companies to one unify one. During this transition upper management has forgotten to look into what middle management is doing and therefore a bunch of inexperience people has made it into the middle management. People with not people skills or management skills. People that think that the old good boy network is going to take care of them. In reality that is cancer that eats the company from within and limits the abilities of the people that are up and coming. My current office does not have a great local presence because of this people. They are wanted by the local community so therefore we do not get work from our local DOT, City or Counties. We depend on other offices to have work. Inexperience project managers, department managers and office managers do not know how to manage projects and do not share information. Out 5 projects in my department 3 are out of budget. Project managers do not follow ethics when it come to the time charges and scope creeping. Department managers are too young to determine what needs to be done and who needs to work on what. Our office manager just got promoted from department manager but he is incapable of bringing work to the office because he is not liked by the clients because he is too young and does not represent our company well.

2.0
Mar 17, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Most of the positives have been eroded since retiring legacy brand names. Large organisation that should be able to leverage its global footprint.

Cons

Seems to be interested only in mega size projects. No apparent investment into business integration. Company is obsessed with micromanagement, pushing "one size fits all" approach without considering consequences. Procedures promote staff responsibility but provide no empowerment. Organisation has become so large that a simple task takes incredible amount of time and effort to complete. Satisfying the internal system seems more important thant the client satisfaction. Selection of management tools is very poor but no discussion is permitted on that subject and there is no desire to change. Large number of professional calibre staff leaving putting more pressure on those still in.

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