AECOM Reviews

Former Employee – worked at AECOM full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – For US employees the health and dental benefits are pretty decent for an AE firm.

Cons – It is a typical large corporation where you are not valued as an employee because management is only concerned about the bottom line.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus more on what originally made AECOM successful which was engineering not contract management. Increasing your profits and revenue through acquiring companies will never be as beneficial as winning work out right.

Former Employee – worked at AECOM full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – When we were Earthtech, things were good. We were moving and shaking.

Cons – Once AECOM took over, all went downhill. They just wanted the name, and not the people. The majority of us got let go.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to the workers. Bring back some of us old-timers.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at AECOM as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – If you are business-minded there are plenty of additional opportunities to work for the company in the US.

Cons – The vacation policy was one of the worst compensations compared to other companies.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at AECOM full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – AECOM is a large, stable company. The employees are great, for the most part. The work is interesting and it's in a fun location.

Cons – AECOM is too large. Decisions seem to come from HQ in LA. Middle management is moved around so often it's hard to remember who your boss is. We were routinely told to lie on our time cards at one point. I don't see room for advancement. Some departments don't even have CADD standards anymore. There are 3 companies under one roof for at least 2 years now and there doesn't seem to be a plan of total integration yet.

Advice to Senior Management – Figure out the redundancy in middle management, and for Pete's sake, get some standards so 2 drawings in the same set of plans don't look different!

Former Employee – worked at AECOM full-time

Pros – Their medical benefits are good and the company promotes healthy lifestyle. They also provide tuition reimbursement and online courses for employees to improve and/or acquire new skills.

Cons – There are several cons to working at this company. The one that stood out the most for me as assistant was their lack of respect and appreciation of the administrative staff. They do not believe in investing in there administrative staff; especially, not their assistants.

Advice to Senior Management – There is more to an assistant than getting coffee, photocopying, submitting expenses and travel arrangements. Hello... Get a clue.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at AECOM full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – A massive, fragmented company cobbled together from buying several privately held and formerly successful sector brand companies.

Cons – While portraying an outward blue chip image, it seems to exist for one principal reason - to support its publicly traded stock price, at the expense of customers and employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Be more loyal to your employees who are working hard to maintain billable hours while you collect your salaries off company overhead.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at AECOM full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great Benefits
Growing Company
Positive Core Values

Cons – Corporate Politics
Not enough growth opportunities available and no clear career paths

Advice to Senior Management – Offer better merit increases to older employees so they will stay instead of searching elsewhere. AECOM is a great company to work at and people shouldn't need to feel like they need to leave to receive a bigger salary bump.

Current Employee – been working at AECOM full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Smart coworkers. Flexible schedule (every other Friday off). Corporation has worldwide reach.

Cons – I don't even know where to start. It has been simultaneously comforting and disturbing reading about fellow employees around the country wiith the same experiences. AECOM was built through acquisition of a wide variety of smaller firms, and it shows. Established names went away, and the replacement doesn't fill the void. Even people in my field are not really aware of AECOM, and if they are, it is with negative connotations. Combine this lack of recognition with high overhead costs due to a large, bloated executive management, and this serves to make us unable to compete with smaller more nimble organizations.

As an employee, you need to be constantly worried about being laid off. I've stopped worrying and almost wish they would lay me off. The work has grown less interesting and fraught with burdensome amounts of administration. The answer to all woes is a form. Or, better, a series of forms and processes. This serves to prevent us in focusing on what our primary focus should be: our clients.

I've realized for some time now that there really is no room for growth professionally or salary-wise. Pay increases have been at a minimal 1-3% annually, with very little management discretion. Local managers are told what they can do, and it's never much. All in all, there are many cons and few pros.

Advice to Senior Management – Do what you say you do and actually value your employees. There are so many talented people that either leave voluntarily or are laid off. The value of the organization is in its people, and that is being constantly eroded.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at AECOM full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – excellent ops to grow within US and Overseas. Multiple Business Lines to work in,, Env. const. Gov Svc. , etc...

Cons – Long Hours and demanding environment. Disorganized Global Organization.... too man acquisitions and not a lot of organic growth,,, too much energy and time spent on integrating acq orgs

Advice to Senior Management – Give time to the company to grow organically,, it has grown so large of recent that it is impossible for an employee to be heard in the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at AECOM full-time

Pros – Some nice people and interesting projects from when the other companies existed.

Cons – - Heavily bureaucratic
- Glass Ceiling
- Cost cutting at every corner so you have to do everything
- Perpetual state of emergency on projects since they only get the clients that no one wants
- 100 billibility mandate is meant to keep you in your place.
- Global company operated as a local one. People and office consistently bicker and fight. No cohesion whatsoever.

DO NOT THINK THAT YOU WILL HAVE GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES. ITS A COMPLETE LIE.

Advice to Senior Management – People are running for the door. There is no work life balance at your firm and we are tired of treated as a number with a margin requirement. Good luck you'll need it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company