WSP reviews

Not the same... I hope to retire in a few years rather than stay on part-time because of the change in the culture, especially since expanding. This billion dollar company has nickel and dimed their way out of even giving their employees the year end Christmas party. Now you have to pay for it. More and more I overhear and have seen employees being intimated and bullied by bad eggs and management who seem to absolutely love it, especially if the worker desperately needs their job.. the insecure games never end... then pretend to be astonished when they quit... it is beyond sick. In a few years I won't need to work so I am not going to continue and will take my years of experience with me.

- Some people are pigeonholed and do only certain tasks, not alowed to expand knowledge and responsibilities; It takes many years for a graduate to accumulate engineering knowledge. - Senior engineers are not allowed to do project management or own the project as most of the responsibilities are kept at the top. - I constantly had to jump from highly focused problem-solving tasks to the big picture or from project to project and because of that, visibility was next to zero and the environment highly stressful. When you were trying to delegate you had to burn the budget just on training the staff but then immediately bullied. - From trainee technicians to Principal/Senior Engineers you were expected to execute the project managers' design/technical decisions the only difference being in how fast you do it. Because of that, the turnover for Senior Engineers was really high. - Very stressful, low life-work balance and low career progression opportunities due to the extreme boxed/silo environment. - The worst part ever was that everyone was working on everything depending on their availability, training and knowledge didn't have time to sediment and because people had different working styles there were endless mistakes, quality of final projects poor and delivery chaotic. - You had no idea what you'll do next week but were constantly under the pressure to deliver. - The communication was either too extreme or too low and due to high stress, some people were very grumpy and unhelpful, doing more harm than good. - Sometimes departments were acting like in a zero-sum game where everyone fought for resources and power. - The staff was either too stressed, undertrained, underbudgeted, unled and because some felt used as machines, motivation was poor and credibility in management undermined. - If you're technically sharp you never get promoted and your salary never increases; they only consider you a better horse and if you're cheap, you can easily become everybody's horse. - the management was constantly making empty promises and were sugar coating me. - too many meetings and emails were burning the budget.