ERM reviews

3.5

62% would recommend to a friend

(1,917 total reviews)
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Sabine Hoefnagel

67% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

ERM has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,917 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ERM employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Jan 8, 2017

Partner Cults of Personality

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Pros

there was a pay check

Cons

low pay, job did not match description in advertisement and discussed at interview, senior staff refused to help junior staff get professional license, job depends on having the "support" through preferred treatment from a partner and not the quality of your work, too much training on h&s lip service and little to no training on job for entry levels (sink or swim), project management blame junior staff when something goes wrong even if junior staff had little involvement in task that went wrong (i.e. junior staff assigned 2 hours enter data in a table, project manager bills most of report but doesn't do it, then blames junior staff in front of Partner saying that was their task to "do report"), you admire and flatter your partner and look other way when they unfairly talk trash about coworkers and never ever tell them they are wrong... if they sink from hubris, you go down with their ship management has no shame in firing you, giving bad recommendations, and talking bad about you to others in company and outside company... worse for my career than if i sat at home and did nothing

1.0
Dec 13, 2015
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Pros

Good staff who join the firm thinking it is truly a sustainability firm and looking for great careers.

Cons

Executive management are comprised of incompetent, unethical, bullies who will lie, threaten, and cheat for their own benefit. The inner circle is made up of folks who will brown-nose the CEO who is also someone who likes to keep incompetent but "loyal" puppies around him. No transparency or governance. CEO runs the company like his personal business and makes all decisions with no accountability....not a partnership at all.

4.0
Jun 30, 2017
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Pros

The company feels like a family after a while and I've been become close with many of my colleagues. The turnover has been high (>25%) in the last few years but talented, dedicated, smart, motivated and helpful people remain (scientists and non-scientists). There is an immense and ever-growing, fairly-organized H&S culture with mandatory trainings, yearly updated trainings, online optional and required modules, and an internal system for alerting the co. of any and all H&S concerns, from ergonomics to car accidents and gas line breaks during sub surface clearance. There is opportunity to be rewarded for your hard work in bonuses, raises, reimbursement for successful completion of continuing education courses, etc. They will fly you across the country for a training and pay for your hotel and flight and food. There a caring people in your local and regional management that listen to you and care what you have to say. The company has a concentration on bringing sustainable solutions to clients world wide. You are connected online with anyone in the company at any time, even the CEO, so talking to people is really easy and fluid.

Cons

The higher you get in the company, the smaller your raise and bonus gets and sometimes it's almost nothing. International and national management seems so unbearably aloof you wonder if they even know your office exists. The training programs for H&S look great on paper and do help you, but the company has no problem sending you to another state or country with either the wrong or inadequate training, including to parts of the world that are dangerous. The internal H&S system is getting better but is often tedious, overdone, misplaced, redundant or fills a void that doesn't need filling. There is almost no middle managers to guide you and they're overworked. The company feels very top heavy and younger people are blamed for not having work when it's the responsibility of partners and proj managers to get the work in the first place. High turnover overall (<25%). We propose to do more for sustainability but it feels forced, fake and overlooked - I don't see much application of anything remotely sustainable, especially as our biggest projects are in oil and gas and power. Many people work from home and the office lacks any enthusiasm, zest for work or connection. Not much brings people together and there is a hush hush murmur of where the hell the company is going on its new strategy. Company relies too heavily on big clients and rarely fetches new work when it could keep people busy. Local partners would rather staff their projects with their own people if not appropriate for the job so many miss out if they are trained for what the work.

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