AECOM reviews

Just like life you're out there to figure it out for yourself. The direct supervisors have to manage their own technical responsibilities/projects while parsing out tasks to staff that may or may not have the capability to actually complete. Staff that complete tasks get more work, whereas others that require more mentoring or motivation usually are not very successful. The company has a problem with getting rid of dead wood, that is people that are not billable but continue to game the system by saying that they're looking for work. As it turns out no one wants to use these folks b/c they charge projects without providing acceptable work (i.e., deliverables). In the end your budget is spent, you end up finishing the project on your own time to satisfy your clients, and then senior management continues to push you to use dead wood for your project.

terrible management - you literally get lost in the cracks. when i started, i sat around without a computer and did nothing for a whole month and nobody but me thought it was a problem. nobody knows who anyone is. no welcoming of new people and people just disappear with no one saying if they quit or were laid off.