Pros
* The company culture, while far from dynamic, is really kind, hardworking and accepting. The people who work here are awesome. I've worked out of Houston, Boston, Denver and New Orleans offices and have yet to come across anybody that isn't genuine, welcoming and collaborative. * They have a nice policy where you can work from home or other offices without burning up vacation time. * You get to work on teams with people across the country and world via skype meetings. * If you make the effort, you actually have a good deal of control over what projects you take on, even as an entry-level engineer.
Cons
* I personally found the work incredibly dull. 99% of what the Air Quality and Climate Change team does is permitting. If you like doing your taxes, this job might be for you because reading and applying regulation/filing permits is a lot like that. But if you don't like doing your taxes, get a different job. * You don't learn real engineering design skills. You learn permitting, project management and lots and lots of data analysis. * Almost everybody works way more than 40 hour weeks * You will be stressed out because as an entry level employee you are MANDATED to spend at least 95% of your time doing billable work for clients. Any less and your personal performance metrics will suffer. If you're having a slow day, prepare to stay late and work through dinner. * Don't work here if you want to do sustainability work. ERM greenwashes their website A LOT. If you work here, you'll be working on behalf of the oil and gas industry. Which is fine, just don't come in expecting to make the world a more eco-friendly place. What you'll be doing is whatever industry pays ERM to do, which is almost always just permitting or due diligence work. It's almost never actual strategic consulting work. * Atmosphere of complacency with the tedium that life is at ERM. Most people are happy with their jobs here, which is confusing to me because all we do is stare at our screens and fill out permits for 9 hours a day.
