Great talent, but very cold culture - Anonymous employee HDR Employee Review

3.0
Mar 15, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The talent they hired was high quality. Everyone in my department was incredibly smart and driven. There was never any question of competence. Schedule was flexible when it needed to be Work was mostly high profile and interesting Compensation was adequate and around industry standard

Cons

Culture is very souless and corporate. Lots of empty suits and stale perspectives. There are so many different departments/offices and nobody ever collaborated. I don't remember ever working with engineering at all. No mentorship or support. If you're not 100% self starting, you won't work well. My utilization was less than 30% and I never had direction or regular assignments,

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Cons

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