AECOM reviews

- Terrible management who are concentrated on their own careers. My managers were terrible at looking after their staff and were more focused on their own careers and jobs. Good people managers are neither recognized or rewarded, the focus is purely on the technical work. - AECOM is only good for people who are very career driven and OK with little to no support. If this is OK with you, then there are many place to go and great projects to work on. - There is little support for non-engineers (environmental scientists, planners etc). It's really an engineering company.

AECOM (formerly URS) has a bad work environment in general. The focus on every dollar billed from a client forces employees to become possessive about their assignments. Engineering team often didn't know what one another were doing and did not share information freely. Cooperation and assistance are difficult to come by. Timesheets were micromanaged due to metrics on billable hours to projects and clients. Management puts heavy pressure to reduce overhead to nil even when difficult to manage. Administrative staff were dumped on by every team/department, rarely consulted and frequently double-booked at last minute by competing priorities and then browbeaten when they asked for help.