Good and not so good - Senior Designer Stantec Employee Review

2.0
Mar 3, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Good people and staff -Good office location -Great benefits and flexible hours -Salary compensation -Good network of internal resources and staff to collaborate with

Cons

-Lack of Leadership and Management -Lack of consistency in processes and drawing management amongst all offices/disciplines -top heavy “too many chefs” -high employee turnover -over-processed making it hard to actually run projects -Toxic environment where profit is the main goal vs. growth of people -Management and HR does not do anything to help resolve internal issues amongst staff and feel like you’re being set up to fail

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Cons

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