AECOM reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(11,157 total reviews)
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Troy Rudd

79% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

AECOM has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 11,157 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
Mar 25, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Mega projects to work on -Flexible working hours -Good benefits

Cons

Company has been transitioning from 5 different companies to one unify one. During this transition upper management has forgotten to look into what middle management is doing and therefore a bunch of inexperience people has made it into the middle management. People with not people skills or management skills. People that think that the old good boy network is going to take care of them. In reality that is cancer that eats the company from within and limits the abilities of the people that are up and coming. My current office does not have a great local presence because of this people. They are wanted by the local community so therefore we do not get work from our local DOT, City or Counties. We depend on other offices to have work. Inexperience project managers, department managers and office managers do not know how to manage projects and do not share information. Out 5 projects in my department 3 are out of budget. Project managers do not follow ethics when it come to the time charges and scope creeping. Department managers are too young to determine what needs to be done and who needs to work on what. Our office manager just got promoted from department manager but he is incapable of bringing work to the office because he is not liked by the clients because he is too young and does not represent our company well.

1.0
Dec 23, 2009

Megagluttony in action

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Global company. Many business lines.

Cons

No communication from upper management except corporate platitudes and stiffling bureaucratic rules. Corporate strategy of constantly buying companies and then burning them. Despite several years and many, many acquisitions, still clueless on how to actually integrate purchased businesses into the firm - you would think the C-level would have learned by now just through shear repitition. A strategy of buying everything and growing too big to fail. Proven track record of dismantling successful firms they've acquired. I'll let you guess where this leaves the average employee and what the employees long-term prospects are....

1.0
Sep 24, 2019

High Turnover

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Plenty of opportunities to eat office provided food.

Cons

Every coworker I talk to has plans on leaving the company. Employees have to beg for work and use PTO hours and suspense to curtail low utilization. Overtime hours are straight time and any overhead or training hours during a week with overtime is considered volunteering. Very little on boarding training, most training is on the job, so few project managers want to use their budgets to train new employees.

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