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Cream of the Crop Environmental Consultant, but room for Improvement - Anonymous employee Geosyntec Consultants Employee Review

3.0
Feb 10, 2020
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people, interesting projects, and plenty of work! You'll have opportunities to get your hands in a handful of projects and learn with some of the brightest minds in the industry. Offices all over the country allow you to relocate and set up where you like. The majority of people and managers genuinely care about you and set you up to succeed. Potential to excel and promotions do exist, but tend to benefit the senior level and up. Excellent benefits and stability - if you work hard you may not feel appreciated or fairly compensated but you'll always have a role. The Geosyntec name still holds merit, this is one of the top consultants in the industry.

Cons

Consulting industry tends to be overworked and/or underappreciated. Work/Life Balance tends to be an underlying issue across all offices and positions. Geosyntec tries to act like a small firm, however they still have many corporate characteristics of the large firm that they now are, and those usually don't end up to the benefit of employees. They have gotten better recently but Geosyntec is still fairly top heavy with too many cooks in the kitchen at the senior level and not enough staff level positions to perform the work. Effect is that the Entry/Mid level staff usually has to pick up the slack and tend to get overworked. Geosyntec values and billing rates represent them being the best, which is great, but employees are not fairly compensated in my opinion to prove that mission statement true. Turnover has become an increasing issue in recent years as employees are looking elsewhere out of the industry all-together.

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Cons

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Pros

There is a lot of variety of work available for those seeking it and eager to diversify their skill set. Cross collaboration between groups, offices, and practices is highly encouraged. It has been a unique experience among other consulting firms I’ve worked at, as Geosyntec prizes doing cool work on cool projects over just trying to maximize how much money is coming in. The atmosphere doesn’t feel internally competitive, and there isn’t generally a sense of possessiveness of work amongst managers and working groups. Many projects I’ve been on have been multidisciplinary efforts with teams assembled from all over to get the right people in the right position on each project, regardless of who may be the “profit center” for the revenue.

Cons

Sometimes, because of the pros described above, organization of projects can feel a little stretched thin, and the consequence of such collaboration and cross-team work sharing can sometimes lead to a lacking of accountability in the leadership structure on a project, as people are performing work for other groups and managers they do not directly or indirectly report to. Additionally, I feel like the company is a little top heavy on senior managers, principals, and senior principals, and it can feel as a mid-career employee that there isn’t enough early-mid career support on projects.

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