AECOM reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(11,150 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 11,150 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
Nov 24, 2015
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Pros

Multidisciplinary environment, big projects, a few talented people, globally recognised brand, young work force, good male/female balance, bright office.

Cons

Salary discrimination based on nationality. Highly stressful work environment with long hours. In 2014, 3 panic attacks and 1 heart attack have happened within the office, commonly occurring before approaching deadlines. Very poor decision making at the management and executive level. Extremely slow advancement of career ( 4 years per promotion ). Growth of salary that is below the nominal rate of inflation ( 1 - 3% per year if any ). Poor quality of engineering work and especially poor architectural work. Lack of ethics and accountability by submitting poor and un-qualifying designs for construction. Low quality interview process ( expect to find people at the senior level who haven't had a justifiable work experience ). Long work hours, tight deadlines, unorganised design progression, and absolutely no employee compensation to balance it out. Unexciting work environment, sort of like a library. Mentality of "Us versus Them" between management and employees. Parking nightmare around the building. Lack of culture and diversity, expect to see tribes sticking to each other as would be in a prison atmosphere. 30 minute lunch allocated for a 9 hour work shift, combined with prison-style food for catering. Little or no investment in employee's career development.

1.0
Nov 10, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Apart from making some great friends and colleagues there is nothing much positive I can say really. Wouldn't recommend to anyone.

Cons

Always restructuring, therefore, redundancies ongoing. Always buying up companies and then not retaining their best staff. Management are poor. Too many of them. Set up Departments only to then close them down within a short space of time - more redundancies.

2.0
Sep 24, 2015

Not a healthy environment to work in.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Co-workers and the pay isn't bad, but not the best either. I wish we were still the old name before we became AECOM.

Cons

Poor management, no advancement and no recognition for most employees.

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