If you want to dread coming to work...this is your place - Engineer AECOM Employee Review

1.0
Apr 19, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Ability to come in late and no one cares Ability to leave early and no one cares Ability to charge full time to projects despite not working, and on one cares

Cons

The atmosphere in the open office environment is like being in a sweat shop/prison. I heard someone refer to it as concentration camp - and that was spot on. I dread going to work every day. There is a thing here. We call it AECOM depression, and just about everyone has it. The worse news is that URS took over little brained aecom. There are no managers from aecom anymore, they were replaced with URS. The corporate policies all went the way of URS too. Like stealing the 401k match. People are actually too depressed to care that the 401k policy alone means you stay in this prison for 5 more years before you can afford to retire.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Recommend
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Pros

Decent company, good stock plan, good people who want to see you grow

Cons

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