Do not recommend - Environmental Engineer CDM Smith Employee Review

2.0
Jul 14, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of interesting projects and opportunities to learn.

Cons

When working in their laboratory, health and safety protocols are often ignored. The ventilation often shuts off randomly, and whenever individuals bring concerns up the management of the lab claims they are creating drama. Management of the lab is too busy to manage well, and work is often given out in random fashion making it difficult to achieve your utilization goals. This makes the environment high stress and the team will cut one another down in order to achieve success.

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5.0
Apr 22, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of training and opportunities

Cons

Company structure can be confusing

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Thank you for taking the time to leave us a 5-star review! It was great to have you as an employee and wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
2.0
Jun 18, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible hybrid schedule is very nice and starting salary is high for early career engineers.

Cons

The main people running the company are not engineers and you can tell. They are all focused on utilization with rates often set at 97% or higher. This had led to my supervisor asking/telling me to not charge company required trainings. As an early engineer it really feels like they don't want to invest in me and only care about their bottom line. If you are an early career structural engineer you will also not get any meaningful work until you've been with the company for at least 5 years. The senior engineers do not trust you and will only give you grunt work.

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