Pros
They do not micromanage you, here, and the job can be pretty easy at times. They have a welcoming and accepting culture of inclusive members for the most part, and they are very friendly and nice people to be around (for Junior and mid level members). You can try to pick whatever career you want at ERM, if you can convince project managers that have the time to teach you things.
Cons
The job advertisement and recruiting interview were not accurate of the job description. It was presented to have 80% field work for the job in during the interview, and the job advertisement made it sound a lot more like a field position that was very technical. I only spent about 10% of my work in the field, and I did not go out in the field at all during the Summer which was detrimental to my career as a geologist. Too overly concerned about budgets and no time to train new hires or give feedback because it’s not in the budget. You have to ask for special permission to have the overhead cost of training an employee on any given project. Making the clients happy and rolling over for them when it comes to enforcement is not okay. It comes at the expense of retaining team members that have more integrity. I never had any steady work applicable to what I was hired for, and I felt underutilized. The job did not have enough technical material for me to work with and was very generalized and broadly overviewed. There were only a handful of times I was happy or satisfied for my work, but that would be like 1-2 days per quarter. I took the job at ERM after I was recruited, to complete a goal of mine of working and living in Seattle, WA. However, I found somewhere else that I can retain that aspiration and continue on to what looks to be a more promising journey. I may rejoin ERM one day, but that time is not now because it is not the right environment for me to learn technical skills in my career.
