Empty slogans - Environmental Scientist Stantec Employee Review

1.0
Jan 12, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Safety conscious, often obsessively so. Reasonable salary and benefits, at least at the senior technical level.

Cons

As another reviewer said, they'll sing your praises when they're trying to win work, but watch for blood on your shoes when work dries up. Unless, of course, you're one of 67 vice presidents, a much larger and equally ineffective cadre of principals and associates, or one of their friends. Those people keep their 250K+ jobs and get promoted - you know, the old search for the guilty and punishment of the innocent routine.

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Cons

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Pros

Hybrid Work and access to useful engineering tools

Cons

Projects are inconsistent in organization and structure (some good some bad). High (and strict) utilization requirements of >93% for entry level and mid level engineers results in overtime with overlapping work loads to avoid any downtime between projects. No development or mentorship strategy around work assignments, the main goal is to keep utilization up. Stantec has been very focused on cutting costs by offshoring, limiting conference attendance, reducing volunteer hours, no tuition reimbursement, multiple layers of approvals to attend in-office CPR training, etc. Very corporate environment and top heavy management with over 240+ “Vice Presidents” currently at the company. Difficult to get raises/promotions besides annual raise. Typical raise is ~3-5% with a good review depending on where your current salary is in relation to the pay range for your career level.

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