AECOM reviews

"Do you have a charge code for that?" is the most common phrase used by AECOM employees. The reason for this is because the only measure of an employee's worth that really counts here is utilization (the number of hours you work divided by the number of hours they pay you for). If you don't have enough billable hours to put enough hours on your timecard (most people are expected to be 90% to 100% billable), you have to take vacation time or unpaid leave, but still be at your desk. If you have more than 40 hours billable work, you only get paid for 40. Why is that? Because executive management need cashflow to pay the interest bill on the money they borrow to make acquisitions. Why to they make acquisitions? its a way faster way to increase executive earnings than organic growth. As earlier reviewers predicted, people are beginning to leave for better opportunities now that the economy has improved.

Communication within organization poor Company does so many things, that it is easy to get lost in the shuffle Offices pitted against one another for work Procedural questions often go unanswered Excessive required internal paperwork combined with a requirement to maintain very high (over 90%) bill-ability causes high levels of stress. Because of lack of communication, there are offices (or subsets of offices) with little to no work, when other offices are contracting outside of the company for the very services offered by those offices that need work. This is EXTREMELY frustrating. The company has lost sight of the importance of local work, leaving people with specific local expertise trying to play catch up so that they can do work in different regions. There is an overall feeling of waiting for the other shoe to drop. Layoffs come without warning, in a seemingly haphazard and illogical way. No respect for what people actually contribute. Atmosphere of fear is pervasive. Never thought I'd work somewhere that reminds me of "office space"!