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Good starting job - Staff Engineer (Civil Engineer) Applied Research Associates Employee Review

3.0
May 4, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Good as a starting job to be able to land other jobs. You will work on different interesting and challenging projects. Great place to work with, friendly people.

Cons

As a new employee or fresh out of school, you will alway be the victim of not having sufficient work to fill out your timesheet. You will be forced to use your personal leave when there are no tasks to work on even though you are available to work and they will go around and blame you for not having work. Senior people or above have sufficient work that can be done by new employees but they decide to complete it by themselves to fill out thier time sheet and keep others/recently new employees struggling and stressful. Some seniors work on repetitive work and get easy money and don’t want to share the work with new employees.

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5.0
Dec 4, 2025
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Pros

Work life balance Flexibility Benefits

Cons

Pay could be better but for starting salary is good enough

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3.0
Jul 12, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Extremely flexible schedule, Some cool staff.

Cons

Pay is trash for admin personal It's like some people carry rank and it's annoying

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