ERM reviews

3.5

61% would recommend to a friend

(1,924 total reviews)
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69% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

ERM has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,924 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
Aug 25, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Large environmental consulting firm with offices worldwide. Very competent technical staff, with experts in all areas. Large client base. Allows flexible/hybrid working arrangements. Compensation and benefits are in line with industry norms for the most part.

Cons

Upper Management has gone downhill since a large private equity firm became the majority shareholder in the firm about 3 years ago. Since then they have been relentless in constant pressure on staff for billability and profitability. Labor rates have been raised significantly making it difficult to retain work and win new work. Continual, frequent, and unnecessary work processes changes make it difficult to get things done efficiently. If you don't have enough billable work to meet your goal its up to you to find new work. ERM has lost many qualified and experienced technical professionals in the last year or two as a result of these changes. In company wide emails and all staff calls with upper management it feels like all they ever talk about is ERM's sustainability practice, even though most of the company did not work in this area. Mid-Management was okay, but I think they were undercut at times by Upper Management.

4.0
Aug 18, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

You can do advisory and assurance work for the same client, phenomenal way to validate your own work Good upskilling place High turnover which makes you senior and experienced very quickly Good to join post retiring as no retirement age I increased the average by giving a 4. Hooray

Cons

1. Unethical practices, kickbacks and if you raise voice you are cut off overnight. No survey is ever anonymous. 2. Very few partners or none have survived who were hired in the past 3 years 3. Namesake partnership, older partners who don't sell nor retire are retained forever in made up Operational roles especially in North America 4. The previous global CEO was also let go, says it all. No one is permanent and kills morale 5. No use of technology at all, no process at all for data management, risk, quality management 6. You won't survive if you don't take operations roles or join through an acquisition or exceptional at bootlicking 7. No Afro American partners globally, North American leadership is as white you can imagine 8. Next year is transaction year so heavy firing at random will of operations folks who only look at excel and can't even sell a single dollar 9. No CFO survives the wrong doing that is happening behind the scenes, check annual report

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