Overall great, but need to work on maintaining positive experiences - Engineer Arup Employee Review

5.0
Jan 29, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

A great firm that stands by its values. Amazing ability to work with teams around the world remotely (not purely lip service, it actually happens) and also the long term/ short term exchange program provides unique global opportunities especially compared to competitors. Many of the people you meet are some of the highest achievers in the field but all typically quite approachable and collaborative. A portfolio of high profile projects that makes you quite proud of what you work on. I've worked at a few competitors with major projects and public sector in the same discipline and Arup is by far my favorite culture I've experienced between them all.

Cons

Sometimes workload can be unpredictable (ie. a bit slow or extremely busy) especially for technical specialists, which is somewhat similar across consulting engineering, although to be fair they really work to minimize this. Slow to make decisions/not very nimble - in the past 2 years a lot more red tape has been put up around R&D funds, software & technology, generally getting approvals for initiatives

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5.0
Apr 30, 2026
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Pros

Working at Arup was a great experience, surrounded by smart, motivated, and mission-driven peers.

Cons

This may have since improved, but at least previously, the America's region felt rather second-class compared to UK. Most/all senior leadership, even in the US, was British.

3.0
Jun 11, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great company with lots of good benefits, interesting large scale projects, and a fantastic team of people to work with.

Cons

Be prepared to work long hours, overnights and weekends at times. At the end of the day, it is a consulting firm so the clients needs will always come first over employee health and wellbeing.

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