AECOM reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(11,133 total reviews)
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Troy Rudd

78% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

AECOM has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 11,133 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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2.0
Sep 29, 2019
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Pros

Really good experience to add to your resume. Big and diverse projects that will look great and give you some very practical experience. I would recommend this company to entry engineers for their first few years to get that resume padded and to learn practical skills. The company is big enough that if you ever hit a road block you can reach out to someone in the company to help.

Cons

Expect your salary to be lower than avg for your position. Yearly cost of living raise will barely keep up with inflation. Out of cycle raises take months to go through if they ever are even approved. Benefits get worse and worse every year, bottom of the barrel for the industry too. 3% 401k match, no HSA match, high premiums and deductibles. Rumor from upper management is that benefits for 2020 are being cut again! Engineer jobs are now starting to be outsourced to Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia because they are quote "ten times cheaper even if half of it is wrong". This is causing a lot of angst among the engineers in America. Literally everything is subcontracted out to save a buck. Every year for the past 5+ years a section of the company has been subbed out to save money. IT was contracted out to IBM but they constantly close tickets without actually fixing the problem just to meet their quota, no standard IT protocols across offices, different answers to easy questions depending on who you get a hold of in IT. Printers were subbed out but nobody came to actually set up the printers at your office, the new company just dropped them off and said good luck. We have to manually track each print since the tracking software was never set up correctly and IT won't deal with it since its a "printer company" issue. Facilities was subbed out and now nobody knows who to call to fix any office building issues, you get the run around depending on who you contact in upper management. Admin staff were completely gutted leaving all the overhead that Admin performed to now be done by the engineers. All the above now has to be handled by the already overworked engineers. Nothing can save this company it will eventually collapse from its own weight, turnover is insanely high, whole offices have vanished within the last year due to turnover.

2.0
Apr 27, 2016
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Pros

Average company during the boom times, can't cope during downturn.

Cons

Just a number Too much focus on billability Immature project processes (extremely delinquent) Loyalty not rewarded in the slightest Top heavy - redundancies target the troops and management always survive Lack of management accountability - fear of dealing with any conflict Consistently repeat mistakes at higher level and expects different results Claim to be a company of integrity and high ethical standards, couldn't be further from the truth

1.0
Feb 10, 2016
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Pros

Being made redundant just before I hit 10yrs of service. I was ready to walk but waiting on my 10yrs to tick over so I could receive my long service entitlements. Instead, AECOM made me redundant and I was given almost a year’s worth of severance pay. Besides sorting out a few health issues (e.g. suffering massively from depression), I got to take 6 months off, not think about work or the BS workplace politics, got spend time with the family, sleep-in when I wanted and travel. Best thing to ever happen to me.

Cons

Everything. Expectation to work long days when there was plenty of work (wasn’t uncommon for me to work 80+ hr/wks) but heavily criticized when charging overheads during the quiet periods. When it was really quiet I was pigeonholed into travelling away on secondment (away for a total of 4.5yrs). As a result, I developed severe depression. The long days, isolated locations, working conditions (eg. extreme heat , dangerous work sites), boredom, loneliness etc. all took its toll on me. Made to perform tasks above my pay grade/qualifications. I’m formally qualified as a civil designer but was asked to take on the role of QA inspector on a large project. During this time, the superintendent was let go and I was left to sign off on all project/contractual decisions, QA documentation, progress claims etc. because no replacement had been allocated. I had no formal qualification to do so and raised this to one of the office directors but was told to pretty much ‘put up and shut up’.

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