AECOM reviews

* Very poor management, junior mentoring and general business direction * No culture - go to work, sit on your computer or in a meeting room for 8 hours, eat lunch at your desk, go home * Not great offices - like working in a large factory floor so very noisy and impersonal * Dismal pipeline of work for a large company - poor bidding and networking at management level * Next to no benefits - standard 1-2% pay increase per year but bonuses and pay rises happen very rarely. AECOM benefits system is very gimmicky and a standard enterprise rewards system used by big companies - eg. get 2% off groceries at Tesco or save 2% at Costa. * Next to no spending on innovation, office enhancements or employee satisfaction. * Very poor project management systems which take about 5-8 people to approve a project to go-ahead (even for a project as small as £1000). * Poor pay - below to average for the industry. * Large pay gap between junior/mid-level staff and managers. The junior/mid-level staff usually do most of the work. * Very poor office manager - rarely hear from them * High turnover of staff - you can understand why.

Clueless management and byzantine organizational structure that is always in flux. No local management with decision-making authority, even in fairly large offices (75+). No business development support (in terms of dollars and proposal help) for technical staff on the front lines who deal with clients day-to-day. Avalanches of idiotic communications from senior management. A medieval employee rating philosophy and scheme that force-fits people into a normal distribution. (But wait! I thought AECOM employs only the best.) Relentless efforts to direct-bill clients for what are actually overhead functions. This is an engineering company run by accountants and MBAs who have starry-eyed visions of glory, but who apparently run the business by sleight of hand.