CH2M HILL Reviews

Current Employee – been working at CH2M HILL full-time for more than a year

Pros – flexibility and nice people to work with. Very accommodating and understanding supervisor.

Cons – few people that think they own the place..

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at CH2M HILL full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – 1) Opportunities(I've been able to live in Korea working), 2) Work Environment (no-one micro-manages you)

Cons – Big company that has typical big company bureacracy, difficult to repatriat into another position when coming back from international assignment

Advice to Senior Management – Need to do a better job of repatriating expats that come back from international assignments

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at CH2M HILL full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – - Company understands and supports work/family balance.
- Opportunity for growth in company because the company is growing and the baby boomers are retiring.
- The people who work here are great!
- Company has very talented/technical staff who are good mentors
- Opportunities for travel if you prefer to travel
- Good local market penetration

Cons – - As the company grows there is an increase in bureaucracy/processes.
- As the company grows they are focusing on larger and larger projects/clients.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to focus on people development and happiness

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

Current Employee – been working at CH2M HILL full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Work-life balance is encouraged and supported through things like flexible working schedules. Supervisors' primary concern is getting the job done, and they give me latitude to figure out how to get there. The work itself is interesting and engaging, and I enjoy colleagues both within my business group and throughout the enterprise.

Cons – There are often many levels of approval/notification required to move something forward, and it's easy to leave someone out - and they usually aren't happy about it. Not clear how my work fits into the company overall, nor what the plan is for moving that work forward. Benefits are OK - would like to see them beef up the 401K match, lowest of anyplace I've ever worked.

Advice to Senior Management – Communicate more effectively, particularly if it involves significant changes to the company overall or to individuals' jobs.

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

Current Employee – been working at CH2M HILL full-time for more than a year

Pros – The pay is competitive and benefits are excellent.
The projects and work are interesting.
Having many offices allow staying with the company when moving to another geographic area.
Telecommuting is commmon.
Office facilities are genrally very good.

Cons – The company expects a lot of free side work in the form of presentations, mentoring, community service projects, etc.
Billing is expected to be 100%.
Poor support for attending training and professional development events.
There is no way to settle disagreeements between project managers and technical experts.
The corporate culture fosters blaming and backstabbing rather than collaboration and problem solving.
As in many large engineering firms, the environmental division is a sideshow to support the engineering practice.
Work is stovepiped with poor communicaitons and cooperation.
Long-time employees say it has grown quickly through acquisitions but still operates like a small local office.
Individuals market their services internally to project managers with little coordination or support.
Records and document retreival infrastructure is very poor.
Bonus pay is not common.
Managers must rate at least 15 percent of employess as unsatisfactory.
Workloads are uneven and vacation/sick leave must be saved to carry through light work periods.
Orientaiton and integration is poor without clear explanations of expectations.

Advice to Senior Management – Revise the PEP program to foster coooperative solutions rather than finger-pointing.

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

Current Employee – been working at CH2M HILL

Pros – Good benefits, okay pay, generally okay.

Cons – Disrespectful coworkers, long hours, no work life balance.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your people and pay them more.

Former Employee – worked at CH2M HILL

Pros – The pay is generally on par with competitors, benefits, profit sharing, your given all you need to work when ever where ever, blackberry/labtop/truck.

Cons – Its who you know, especially in the construction side of the house. They watch each other's backs and could careless about the real workhorses. There is no respect for the field engineer, your basically doing anything and everything regardless of knowledge or managerial support. And when you complain about being over worked or question the logic your treated as incompetent. There is no encouragement for growth or structure for promotion. The main goal is profit driven by bonuses for upper management. Its no wonder they can't seem to win any bids. No future in this company and will only get worse the more companies they seem to buy up....

Advice to Senior Management – Pay attention to your young engineers they are the future of the business. Train and encourage your people respect your people, don't just preach/tweet/blog to the wall ensure all your management is practicing what your adamant about.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at CH2M HILL

Pros – Great benefits, 401k match, affordable health insurance, choose of different health insurances, descent pay, knowledgeable co-workers. Great place to work and expand your career. Great communication from upper management. Very versatile types of work. Great PTO program.

Cons – Tight with raises, even when out preform all your co-workers. Reward program is lacking for hourly employees. Constant worry over length of employment due to types of contacts working on.

Advice to Senior Management – Improve the continuing education program. People can't get new degrees without taking loans to pay for the tuition. Also re-work the yearend review process, does it really take 5 months to give out a 3% raise?

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at CH2M HILL

Pros – Competitive pay
Decent benefits
Some good employees
Concerned about safety
When I needed personal time off they allowed it. They also are understanding of missed flights etc, as long as it doesn't happen on a regular basis.

Cons – Lied about pay
HR is a joke
Extreme favoritism
Hard to get recognition for a job well down
Lots of office gossip
I have 7 bosses - 6 of which are unnecessary
Hard to move up unless you are friendly with the hirer - then it's easy

Advice to Senior Management – Needs some restructuring as well as monetary incentives for a great job or for completing a hard job on time.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at CH2M HILL

Pros – Very flexible work schedule, environmentally conscience, great offices

Cons – Pay compensation discrepancies between divisions, Position levels seem based on time experience only