WSP reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(7,149 total reviews)
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Alexandre L’Heureux

79% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

WSP has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 7,149 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The WSP 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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7K reviews
1.0
Sep 6, 2022

Corporate Mismanagement

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Pros

None (unless you happen to be lucky enough to have good colleagues that also happen to be working there).

Cons

The corporate machine is a bloated, uninformed, uneducated body of people managing from afar, in Quebec, consistent with Quebec corporate practices of putting dollars first, quality and people second and third. You have 5 to 7 levels of "management" above you, all amazingly unqualified to actually manage technical staff, as they either (a) did minimal actual practice themselves, or (b) don't even have university degrees in their subject areas (the old adage of "those who can't do, teach... and those who can't teach, administrate" fully applies here). The philosophy of corporate is to increase company share value at ALL costs, which translates into: 1) gobbling up small companies, 2) increasing chargeability targets to ludicrously unobtainable long-term targets, then 3) giving staff "temporary" layoffs until they quit, and the cycle repeats. What results is a loss of the best, most talented staff, rock-bottom morale, and work quality that is absolutely sub-par for engineering/science.

2.0
Mar 15, 2022

Just another number

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Pros

Flex time. Direct supervisors are spread too thin to ever micro manage. On the surface they provide a shiney facade with heavy focus on diversity, inclusion, community, safety, awareness - all the up-to-date issues. (Ironically falls short to the actuality which is total disorganization and chaos)

Cons

The reorganization during Covid was challenging enough but the company then dismantled many service departments and outsourced to India as part of its "global initiative". Constant change to project delivery and operations with poor communication and lack of leadership. It's obvious the company only cares about it's investment thru acquiring as many firms as possible. Benefits package are lacking and costly. No OT compensation but job requirements cannot be completed in a standard 40 hour week. Constant staff turnover throughout - those who stay are burnt out and cannot affect real change. You will be over worked and hardly acknowledged. When you leave no one notices.

2.0
Jun 21, 2021

Terrible Big Box firm

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Pros

After working for two great, smaller companies that were bought by WSP I can honestly say there is not a single redeeming quality about this company.

Cons

A massive Bog Box where upper management is is only concerned with acquisitions and couldn't care less about the companies they purchase. Upper management os so detached from daily operations that this company is literally a rudderless ship...with a sweet web page.

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