Dewberry reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(416 total reviews)
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Donald E. Stone, Jr.

83% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

Dewberry has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 416 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Dewberry 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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416 reviews
2.0
Jul 22, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They have a great program of tuition reimbursement and are willing to pay for classes or even whole degree programs if they are relevant to your current work or work you might plausibly do in the future for the firm. It's a great place to work for a few years while you polish up your resume and qualifications for a better job.

Cons

They talk about promoting from within, but they never do. Qualified, experienced people are passed over in favor of less-qualified outsiders. Management does not listen to advice from lower people, either. The preference for outsider expertise is so strong that the firm regularly outsources engineering work that idle workers in the firm could do (indeed have certifications in!) Management has an anti-harassment policy, but it is not enforced. I watched a coworker systematically abused for months despite multiple reports to senior management. It only stopped when the victim was fired. The manager guilty of this abuse still works there today. The HR department believes its primary purpose is to protect the health benefits provider from actually paying claims. If you work there and need a claim paid, you will have more luck talking to the insurance company than HR. HR will tell you the insurance company was right to deny the claim, even if the treatment is for a condition the policy specifically covers. Company is penny-wise and pound foolish: restrictions on hard drive sizes (even on servers), counting office supplies, and discouraging employees from billing admin time even for work like marketing that should be admin, were some of the things I saw.

2.0
Jul 13, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Apprears to be some flexibility with management staff. How much flexibility is within question.

Cons

Cheap. Employees finance the company. Meaning you pay out of your own pocket first and wait for reimbursement. Management staff should be provided with company credit cards and shouldnt have to temp finance a company of this size. Work life balance is a big issue for this firm as they claim to be staffing up but they arent they are just moving work from office to office hoping that their current staff doesnt quit. Put in for a job in the Fairfax office but never got interviewed by that office at all...Had an office manager out of Baltimore try to convince me that I needed to be in his office instead. Leadership and knowledge is in question for this firm.

5.0
Jul 4, 2014

Great place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

friendly people to work with

Cons

the same stuff as anywhere else for cons

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