Engineer - Engineer Arup Employee Review

4.0
Oct 21, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Get to work on some of the absolute coolest engineering projects around the world. Global company, always someone to help you solve your obscure engineering challenge. Lots of smart, interesting co-workers. Company values are laid out clearly in the Key Speech, written by the original founder. People actually really care about diversity and equality. If you get on a good team and cool project, you can have a 6/5 experience working here.

Cons

Experiences will vary from office to office and project to project-- if you get put on a sinking project with a bad manager, it's more like 2/5 to work here. People aren't held accountable, so you have managers messing up over and over, and no one is ever fired or demoted. Deadline-driven work means you're always rushing from one fire drill to the next. Career paths are unclear. Roles are poorly defined. No recognition for going above and beyond. You're part of a big, slow-moving machine (good luck getting IT to help fix your computer, or getting HR to talk to you).

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5.0
Apr 30, 2026
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Pros

Working at Arup was a great experience, surrounded by smart, motivated, and mission-driven peers.

Cons

This may have since improved, but at least previously, the America's region felt rather second-class compared to UK. Most/all senior leadership, even in the US, was British.

3.0
Jun 19, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

great supervisor, lots of professional development opportunities

Cons

insane workload and expect you to be available for work 24/7. some teams are drowning and others have no resourcing. layoffs happen completely randomly and they lay off people who are 100 percent billable. profit share is bs and you get nothing as a junior member

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