Good company culture, but talented employees can hit a ceiling early - Senior Consultant Arup Employee Review

Poor implementation of business strategy, not a meritocracy (mediocre employees retained and often promoted at expense of others), a culture of 'doing your time', rather than promotion on merit, overly traditional in many respects particularly in larger engineering parts of business (e.g. buildings, infrastructure engineering), unsophisticated business processes, navel gazing (company likes to think about itself too much, at expense of thinking about market), lower wages compared to competitors