Company has lost its way - Anonymous employee CDM Smith Employee Review

2.0
Mar 16, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Opportunities to work on a wide variety of projects. Recent merger with Wilbur Smith should increase opportunities. Decent wage and benefits.

Cons

Company is too focused on revenue growth and is working towards that goal at the expense of providing good client service, producing quality deliverables and keeping employees happy. Too many slackers in this organization (who will probably get promoted before you). If you are doing a good job (or a crappy) job, don't expect to get rewarded (or punished). A pat on the back (or slap on the hand) at review time is about all the feedback you'll get with this company. Moral at this company (at least my office) was horrible.

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Pros

Lots of training and opportunities

Cons

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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
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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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