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CH2M Employee Reviews about "good people"

3.3

58% would recommend to a friend

(81 total reviews)

CEO Jacqueline Hinman

Jacqueline Hinman

56% approve of CEO

Ratings by category

4.2

Diversity & Inclusion

3.5

Work/Life Balance

3.4

Culture & Values

3.3

Compensation and Benefits

3.1

Career Opportunities

2.7

Senior Management

Ratings distribution

5 stars

18%

4 stars

30%

3 stars

24%

2 stars

15%

1 star

13%

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Pros
  • "The people were great to work with and helped you grow and realize your potential based on where you wanted to go.(in 127 reviews)
  • "Benefits are good and they offer 401K.(in 70 reviews)
  • "good work life balance if you are in the right group and most groups are great.(in 39 reviews)
  • "There was good pay and they do interesting work.(in 39 reviews)
  • "Great culture and has an outstanting reputation in environmental stewardship.(in 29 reviews)
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Updated Apr 15, 2023

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    1. 3.0
      Jun 17, 2014
      Field Construction Engineer
      Current Employee, more than 8 years
      Denver, CO
      Recommend
      CEO Approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      There are really great people doing tremendous things for the environment. The company culture is respect for the employees and everyone owns a piece of the company. Leadership in general tries to do the right things for the employees and the clients. The people on site that I work with are genuine and very good at what they do. The commitment to diversity is a wonderful value across the board.

      Cons

      Money for training and employee development gets cut early in the year and then not reinstated later in the year. Middle managers need training on people management. The current CEO is clueless about operations and micro manages everything down to where people sit on her floor. Her bio is fraudulent and she married the former CEO's best friend and college roommate to get the job. Men at CH are now wondering how they can break through the "glass ceiling" and move up. She is surrounding herself with "yes" women.

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      1. 5.0
        Jun 7, 2015
        Anonymous Employee
        Current Employee, more than 1 year
        Recommend
        CEO Approval
        Business Outlook

        Pros

        Working at CH2M has allowed me to work with some of the most impressive and genuinely good people. Everyone's absolutely lovely. It has a wide range of interesting projects and there's a lot of flexibility in what you do. Good IT. Lots of ambition. Great opportunities to advance your career if you take ownership of it. People generally let you take on as much responsibility as you want if you've proved yourself.

        Cons

        None as far as I can see. I tried to leave this box blank - but apparently I have to write at least five words in it.

        Thank you for your kind review! We’re happy to hear that you’ve enjoyed working with us. We agree with you: we have great projects! Your suggestions on employee incentives will be passed along to the appropriate team.

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        1. 2.0
          Jun 9, 2011
          Consultant
          Current Employee
          Denver, CO
          Recommend
          CEO Approval
          Business Outlook

          Pros

          Flexibility; ability to work remote; cool projects

          Cons

          Senior leaders who are driving are in it for the money and have their heads in the sand on important people issues. Since it is primarily a consulting business it is really hard to do it well without good people. Once they are 'in' leaders can behave and say anyway they want regardless of how it fails the leadership test.

          3
          1. 4.0
            Mar 15, 2018
            Senior Manager, Corporate Real Estate
            Former Employee, more than 8 years
            Englewood, CO
            Recommend
            CEO Approval
            Business Outlook

            Pros

            Teams were good and the people in general are great.

            Cons

            Management always seemed scattered or panicked.

            1. 3.0
              Jun 16, 2015
              Project Manager
              Former Employee
              Recommend
              CEO Approval
              Business Outlook

              Pros

              Good people working for a company that is cutting benefits to offset too much overhead.

              Cons

              Corporate managers trying to drive the bus with out a clear vision of the local roads.

              8
              1. 1.0
                Jul 8, 2016
                Engineer
                Current Employee, more than 5 years
                Denver, CO
                Recommend
                CEO Approval
                Business Outlook

                Pros

                The only thing that has kept me around is a small core of good people that actually work on projects.

                Cons

                Delusional mid and upper management Jacobs influx Cronyism in hiring practices for upper level staff Hiring upper level staff under "created" roles Fires employees with open ethics complaints Keeps high level people around on overhead while laying off people that are billable working on projects

                19

                Thanks for taking time to write this review and for your service to the company. We pride ourselves on being an ethical company and we encourage all employees to speak up about any concerns about behaviors that are inconsistent with our values. Please get in touch with your ethics ambassador or contact the CH2M Ethics Hotline. We must keep an eye out for behaviors that don’t add to the strong, vibrant culture we have here and welcome any assistance in doing so. Thanks, Matt

                1. 1.0
                  Jan 3, 2017
                  Senior Project Manager
                  Current Employee, more than 10 years
                  Recommend
                  CEO Approval
                  Business Outlook

                  Pros

                  Junior staff have many opportunities to work on a diverse portfolio of projects. Good series of client contracts. Co-workers are, in total, smart, fun and ethical.

                  Cons

                  Senior technical talent thinking of coming on board should run away and run away fast. Unsupported unless you are in a very small select group, management has given up on true innovation (despite what they claim), funding for conferences is minimal and focus is on next month not on long term growth. In addition, senior technical staff are expected to be highly billable, even when they had been given OH roles. Management cuts overhead and if you don't have enough billable work you are expected to use your vacation (I kid you not)-- note senior management has no problem spending OH dollars. I have been at CH2 for 18 years and it went from a phenomenal company, focused on its clients and people, to a company whose senior management focuses on themselves. Poorly run for about a decade. Project Managers basically dead end at a certain level due to lack of opportunity. The recent reorganization resulted in many very good people let go (not for performance or workload reasons) and done so in a classless manner. Basically if you were not politically connected you were at risk. Talent is leaving in droves (including senior VP level management who ended up on the wrong side of the reorganization). Various internal tools are a nightmare to work with and support functions outsourced over seas, resulting in massive time wasting. Losing money on some bad projects and senior management keeps telling staff at their quarterly propaganda meetings they have it managed. Unless senior leadership changes, this is a doomed ship. If you have 15 years or more experience avoid CH2M like the plague. Advice to junior staff-- get 2 years of experience and move on, unless you see significant change at the top.

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                  1. 2.0
                    Mar 29, 2015
                    Anonymous Employee
                    Former Employee, more than 3 years
                    Houston, TX
                    Recommend
                    CEO Approval
                    Business Outlook

                    Pros

                    Good people who want to work on fun and motivating projects. Those who remain are committed and continue to do good work.

                    Cons

                    Weakened benefits, poor sense of direction from HQ in Denver, lots of mixed messages and not enough attention paid to the satellite offices. Bad morale after massive layoff/early retirement program. Weak human resources department.

                    15
                    1. 4.0
                      Jul 9, 2019
                      Project Scientist
                      Former Employee, more than 10 years
                      Recommend
                      CEO Approval
                      Business Outlook

                      Pros

                      CH2M was a great place to work with good people who want to give clients an exemplary product.

                      Cons

                      It is sometimes difficult to self-direct into enough work to be 100% billable.

                      1. 3.0
                        Mar 19, 2016
                        Anonymous Employee
                        Current Employee
                        Recommend
                        CEO Approval
                        Business Outlook

                        Pros

                        Pretty free flowing by the employee company. You seldom are micromanaged. Very good and positive people. There are a lot of good people that work for this company and are very supportive of what we do together as a team.

                        Cons

                        Only top 10% get bonuses. System changes lately are very cumbersome. Evaluation system should be eliminated as it doesn't seem to fill any purpose. Would like to see them eliminated and allow the supervisors to control their own budgets based upon the margins of their particular projects.

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