AECOM reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(11,146 total reviews)
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Troy Rudd

79% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

AECOM has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 11,146 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AECOM employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Mar 6, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The company overall is massive. There is a lot of opportunity if you wanted to relocate, move around position wise within the company or simply get some travel in as part of the number of positions that offer field work (if you're into that sort of thing)

Cons

From my personal experience, I never felt like more than a number while working there. I worked hard, I went above and beyond but the result was always the same. A lazy year end review from a manager who had no idea what I do or how I do it with an overall rating that had no true reflection to the effort and work I put in (despite my detailed and well thought out self assessments). It was my impression that the company motto is to shy away from praising hard workers with the fear that they will "get comfy and slack off". The whole "excellence is unachievable because there is always room to grow" mentality. Obviously this is only my experience. Its possible other teams in other departments ran differently. But after 5 years of hard work only to get a measly 2% cost of living adjustment year after year (which honestly didnt even equate to the REAL cost of living increase during that time) I had enough and left.

3.0
Oct 8, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

-Flex Work hours -less micromanagement. -If you are lucky (or desperate ) and you can pushing to other Project Managers. you can work on some cool projects from other office. As the AECOM Dallas Water team has little to no work or presence in the local municipal or state or federal market, in order to stay billable, you have to depend on other office.

Cons

-The Dallas Water Team doesn't have any work or any win, 90% of the Water staff (PM, PE, EIT) left in the last 12 months (including Land Development Team, H&H, Design). Do not move here if you are an experienced PE or PM. Very high turnover rate. The Water Team fails to retain good people. -Very low Salary, lowest compared to industry average. Years of service at AECOM Dallas office is inversely proportional to your salary, and they don't adjust the salary for current employees when the adjust the global salary scale. People who have worked 5+ years are making 60-70k, and the new college grad with zero experience are being offered 70+k. If you ask for your deserved raise, the Dallas "leadership" or "Regonal VPs" will use every textbook tactics not to pay. -The local Dallas "leadership" do not care at all about the employee. The org chart is literally "top heavy". the Dallas Water Group have too many "Vice President" and other heavy title people, who doesn't understand the market, doesn't bring or win work, doesn't collaborate with other AECOM office, but expects their employees to be 100% billable. But by the way, when the employees went on their own, and solicit their own work from other offices, the "leadership" wants full credit for it. -No Growth Opportunities. -Very Low Morale in the Water Team.The culture overall is "fake". The internal politics between business line is too obvious. There is no assigned "office manager" for individual office. People say this often, but you are literally just a "number" there. My Advice: If possible, move to other AECOM office in Texas. Austin, Houston office has a lot of excellent PM and enough workload as well as cool projects . I have worked with a lot of PM in various AECOM offices nationwide, and I can honestly say AECOM has a lot of exceptionally talented people both in Management and Technical Side. That's just not the case for Dallas Water.

1.0
Dec 15, 2017

Wretched

Recommend
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Pros

Good people. Made some lasting friendships.

Cons

Where to start... This is a company following the stereotypical model for destroying a corporation. Overpay a few CPAs to inflate their resumes and the stock price by nickel-and-diming everything into the ground. Outsource critical functions to India and turn a deaf ear to all the employees who hate you for it because nothing works and it's actually embarrassing to watch you screw over the vendors and subs who have unwisely relied upon AECOM ethical standards regarding payment for their products and work. The benefits are great if you're so young you don't know any better and you don't mind being treated like a child, submitting to insulting telephonic coaching and onerous web-based bs just to qualify for discounts that make your premiums only slightly less unaffordable. The disingenuous back-patting from senior management will challenge your gag reflex, as will all the four- and five-star reviews the company continues to plant on Glassdoor. How this company managed to be named a "Most Admired" is beyond me. The best thing I ever did was leave.

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