AECOM reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(11,143 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 11,143 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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11K reviews
1.0
Dec 4, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

There are no pros to working at AECOM. Over the past few years they've systematically destroyed everything I liked about working there in the name of 'branding' and 'collaboration'.

Cons

As part of recent mergers, the company has begun 'harmonizing' benefits. This means taking the worst possible combination of benefits, to give the bare minimum to the employee. Office space per employee has been reduced 70% in the last year, vacation has been cut, holidays have been removed, and the overhead account has been slashed. At one point in time companies would allow engineers to go to professional events to sell the company brand, and network with the goal of getting projects. All professional travel has been slashed. There is no longer any kind of a budget for training, and earlier this year they even removed the plastic silverware from the break room to cut costs. I'd recommend that people avoid working for this company.

3.0
Oct 14, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The work is interesting. There are a lot of good people who still work there.

Cons

Processes are very inefficient. Team members are located remotely so it is difficult to accomplish tasks quickly. Management is not concerned about employee morale or work quality. .only cost cutting.

2.0
Sep 29, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Really good experience to add to your resume. Big and diverse projects that will look great and give you some very practical experience. I would recommend this company to entry engineers for their first few years to get that resume padded and to learn practical skills. The company is big enough that if you ever hit a road block you can reach out to someone in the company to help.

Cons

Expect your salary to be lower than avg for your position. Yearly cost of living raise will barely keep up with inflation. Out of cycle raises take months to go through if they ever are even approved. Benefits get worse and worse every year, bottom of the barrel for the industry too. 3% 401k match, no HSA match, high premiums and deductibles. Rumor from upper management is that benefits for 2020 are being cut again! Engineer jobs are now starting to be outsourced to Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia because they are quote "ten times cheaper even if half of it is wrong". This is causing a lot of angst among the engineers in America. Literally everything is subcontracted out to save a buck. Every year for the past 5+ years a section of the company has been subbed out to save money. IT was contracted out to IBM but they constantly close tickets without actually fixing the problem just to meet their quota, no standard IT protocols across offices, different answers to easy questions depending on who you get a hold of in IT. Printers were subbed out but nobody came to actually set up the printers at your office, the new company just dropped them off and said good luck. We have to manually track each print since the tracking software was never set up correctly and IT won't deal with it since its a "printer company" issue. Facilities was subbed out and now nobody knows who to call to fix any office building issues, you get the run around depending on who you contact in upper management. Admin staff were completely gutted leaving all the overhead that Admin performed to now be done by the engineers. All the above now has to be handled by the already overworked engineers. Nothing can save this company it will eventually collapse from its own weight, turnover is insanely high, whole offices have vanished within the last year due to turnover.

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