Top of the line A/E Firm - Project Engineer HDR Employee Review

5.0
Oct 10, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Good colleagues to work with - great camaraderie Benefits are similar to the best A/E (AEC) Firms - pretty good. Depending on your office location management is fairly ok with a flexible schedule (at least since 2020). HDR is an ESOP. Company stock price has performed well for the past 10-15 years.

Cons

Its a legacy firm with a lot of senior folks with an old fashioned mentality, however, senior management is putting lots of efforts to change that image and I'd say they have done a pretty good job so far. Managers in certain locations/offices dont like the flexible work schedules and want you to come to the office similar to pre-covid days. Training budget for younger engineers may not always be available as needed.

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5.0
Jul 16, 2026
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Pros

Growing Company, Employee owned, forward thinking

Cons

No clear defined hierarchy for the company below upper management level.

1.0
Jul 13, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The 401k is good, that's it..

Cons

The main complaint is having to beg for work within the company. They don't have enough work to give you and then complain that your overhead is too high. Communication and training is terrible. I've sent numerous emails to coworkers only to be ignored. You have to keep reaching out for someone to respond to you. The project managers also don't budget the labor for their projects well. They're very tight about how many hours you should spend on an assignment and it's often unreasonable, like read and compare a 600+ page document to a 300+ page technical document in 2 work days. The health insurance sucks too. Things that used to be covered are no longer covered such as basic labs. The insurance carrier is always denying services such as an MRI.

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