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      ERM

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      3.5

      61% would recommend to a friend

      (1,923 total reviews)
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      Sabine Hoefnagel

      69% approve of CEO

      47% positive business outlook

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      ERM has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,923 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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      2K reviews
      2.0
      Jul 23, 2014

      Working in sustainability proves unsustainable

      Staff environmental engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      - One of the more accommodating companies I've worked for with regards to working remotely. - Office building is in a super convenient location for public transit, and an unlimited Orca (public transit) card is provided. - Colleagues are hard-working and smart.

      Cons

      - In order to meet your "billability goals" (huge in consulting) you'll be working unpaid overtime. (Potentially lots of it) - Sick time counts against you. While it's part of a benefits package, in order to meet your billability goal, you'll have to make that time up with, you guessed it, unpaid overtime. - There's little or no incentive to working efficiently, you'll still have to find work to fill those hours. (Even though it's a salaried position, every time card must have 40 hours or more on it.) - Even those at the lower levels (CL1, CL2, CL3) who receive bonuses, it's nowhere near compensating for the unpaid overtime spent. - Wages are not competitive. The salary I receive is not commensurate with the cost of living in this city. Seattle just passed a $15/hr minimum wage, which, after the unpaid overtime, tracks closely to (and some weeks is greater than) what I take home.

      2.0
      Jul 15, 2014

      Great technically, but too focussed on excessive profit

      Environmental consultant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good projects, global networking, opportunity for transfer, cool people.

      Cons

      Focus on excessively high profit and growth targets result in overworked and frustrated employees. You're either in love with the company and willing to do anything for the partnership's aspirations, or better off elsewhere.

      1.0
      Jun 9, 2014

      The place is falling apart

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      The company loves to tout it's "people oriented" focus. It's also considered a growing company although it has handled it's growth incredibly poorly

      Cons

      This is a pressure cooker environment that you do not want to come to work for. The growth has led them to hire outside for about 90% of their leadership positions and they simply do not promote from within. There is no room for advancement and the current leadership pool is of the short term variety that comes in, siphons off what profits and perks they can and then bails out before things go wrong. They've been doing that for a few years now and it's gutted the company of any long term talent. Turnover is astronomical and management likes to capture meaningless buzzwords like "One ERM" and beat everybody over the head with them till we're sick of it. The truth is, our counterparts around the world are treated and compensated very differently and "One ERM" rings very hollow. The growth has caused them to become incredibly centralized with the power concentrated in England. The English tend to be very arrogant and treat the Americas and other divisions with disdain. Local decision making and creativity has completely evaporated and London orders everyone around like children now.

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