Great company overall, but doesn't consider lower-paid or younger employees. - Water/Wastewater EIT HDR Employee Review

4.0
Mar 6, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Three weeks of PTO per year for full-time employees starting, goes up to four weeks after 3 years of continuous employment. Employee ownership and stock purchasing, plus discretionary contributions, which are not guaranteed, but can be significant. Health insurance is based on salary/hourly rate versus a flat rate.

Cons

Inflexible with salary negotiations for current employees, even after many attempts over many years. Claims to be competitive in their compensation, but they rely too heavily on benefits such as company stock, PTO, etc. that is really only impactful for tenured employees. They provide very little incentive to keep entry- to mid-level employees no matter how good they are, and it is quite disappointing. Many high-performing engineers don't feel as though they are compensated fairly according to their work experience and expertise. It seems like salaries are only based on resume data with no consideration for performance, productivity, comprehension, etc. Location specific - Most entry- to mid-level employees can't even afford to live in Bellevue. Many of us commute from Seattle and either have an hour commute by public transit or have to pay for parking if we drive. I see very few benefits to having an office space in this location considering not many of us can even afford to live there.

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5.0
Jul 16, 2026
Recommend
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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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