Arup reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(4,441 total reviews)

Jerome Frost

76% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Arup has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,441 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Arup 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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2.0
Apr 13, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Very cool projects that look great on your resume for when you leave and decide to work somewhere else.

Cons

Arup has a cult mentality to them that is often pervasive in large companies. The people are truly the best and the brightest, but with that you also get the ugly side of people such as arrogance and snarkiness, something I experienced face to face often. Maybe it's a cultural shock for me since I'm not from the United States. The pay is also very low, but Arup justifies that by saying you get to work on cool projects. Work life balance is horrendous. I find it amusing that the only people in high rank positions who had families were mostly men, while many of the hardworking, high level female engineers were single and childless.

3.0
Apr 10, 2016

Smart People Working on Big Interesting Challenges

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Arup is a super interesting, multi-disciplinary firm working on some of the most complicated and exciting projects in the built environment globally. Planning new cities, designing transportation hubs, engineering complex buildings and structures that may seem impossible. It's filled with technically masterful engineers and consultants. It's got a strong brand (especially in Europe) built on a long legacy of high profile projects (starting in it's early years on the Sydney Opera House). It's a nice place to work. The company has stated values and tries to live by them. Supporting the employees is one way it does that. It's ostensibly employee owned (paying out a share of profits to the employees every year depending on the performance of the company). It also has an internal funding mechanism open to all employees interested in doing R&D to develop new knowledge that could lead to future value for the organization and its clients. Employees across all levels of seniority and across all disciplines propose ideas and submit them for consideration on a quarterly basis. All in all, a great place for curious engineers, technical experts, city planners and beyond.

Cons

Not always the most strategic organization. Values technical excellence and often more interested in solving the technical challenges for projects rather than thinking through the fuzzier strategic challenges. For the most part, fairly rigid promotional structure with pre-determined promotion phases and timelines and raises.

4.0
Apr 10, 2016

General

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Interesting projects, Good people to work with, Good benefits package, good work environment. Good company to work with and grow with.

Cons

No negative feedback as it is a good company to work for.

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