AECOM reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(11,149 total reviews)
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Troy Rudd

79% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

AECOM has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 11,149 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
Jul 26, 2015
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Pros

Very good projects, talented professionals, large footprint on a massive scale. Strong teams of multi disciplined technical leaders, matched with excellent project and program managers.

Cons

The executive leadership is only interested in share holder value. While there is a ton of communication and social chatter, it is generally contrived and disingenuous. If you are not billable for every hour you are at risk of losing your job. There is little to no vision or strategy, except if you are an accountant and then you can run the C Suite - anyone that can actually run the business need not apply. Investments are never made in operations, but rather is directed toward useless corporate initiatives that yield little to nothing of value.

1.0
Jun 23, 2015

“The most sincere advice for those who intend to join!! ”

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Flexible working hours, if you do not care about your career and only want work life balance then AECOM might suit you. AECOM has an extremely strong PR team to write positive reviews and rating for them on glassdoor, otherwise AECOM will only able to get an average of 1.5 rating Some great co-worker to work with but mostly are junior grade......Since over 95% of senior grade / top management levels are "corrupted" by the "AECOM" culture and most great colleagues decided to leave once they are promoted. Eventually you will be promoted if you worked in AECOM for ages, as all the great people work with you left. Employee benefit is fair, dental also included Large projects Annual dinner feels like carnival, employees only care about the food quality and lucky draw They do tried their best to look like they are professional and ethical.

Cons

If you want to know what AECOM is like, you can just simply get the idea from all the positive reviews about AECOM on glassdoor -Information supporting is empty -All works are standardized, no innovation -Quality of work is poor AECOM does not care about quality but only quantity and that is the reason why most of the positive reviews about AECOM could not provide specific information about their job (All hail to the great PR team in AECOM) No commitment for any project at all!! Bosses never let you know when the deadline is, works and jobs are always last minute and at the end project delayed. Top management does not care about employees, everything is about the financial income and report to stakeholders. No career development, all they want you to do is work like a machine on same type of job. Noncompetitive salaries - Harsh salary for junior grade. Turnover really high. No over time pay. Bonus system is not available for junior grade. No human resource management in team. No collaboration between departments.

1.0
Oct 27, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

There are good people here. Employees with integrity to work with .....until they move on to another company

Cons

The absolute mindless rule in the Midwest where management continues to lose thousands of dollars paying for empty buildings, lawsuits for shoddy work, poor planning, and horrible employee retention. I wonder, truly, if upper management is aware of what's going on or is the cause of this tragic debacle. Employees have been mistreated, their safety jeopardized by neglectful fiscal responsibility, screwed out of severence, and victims of cruel condescension. In AECOM'S purchase of URS' work backlog, it will be interesting to see who eats who. With AECOM'S penchant for gobbling up companies, destroying their infrastructure, laying off support staff, firing project managers and engineers who do not meet utilization, and dim witted business acumen; in a seemingly aimless and reckless desire to make the bottom line facade seem acceptable to the shareholder, it has perverbially shot itself in the head. New hires beware. You are in for great difficulty upon employment here. There is little or no advancement opportunity, very poor raises, non existent acknowledgement of good work, critically low morale, limited employee investment, and the garentee, with the many many staff reductions, you will be doing the work of three people before the year is out. If that doesn't sound attractive, how about coming into work in a toxic stress cloud of uncertainty that there will be that next precious job number to charge your time to before you are put on an elimination list to be let go. It's up to you.

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