Geosyntec Consultants reviews

I was fired from this position due to some issues that were brought up that the staff complained about. The funny thing is, everything I was accused of, was supported and driven by upper management. I was very much micromanaged to the point that if I left the office for any point during the day, my cell phone would ring nonstop. I was asked to spy on employees, provide feedback for everyone that worked for me so that management can continually keep their thumb over everybody. I was very good at my job, but I spent more time tracking people and reporting every little thing to upper management that I started to lose my mind. Very disappointing. But the joke was on me. Honestly, the day that I got fired and was escorted out of the office, was a huge weight off of my shoulders. And now, five years later, they are still having the same issues because I have kept in touch with some of the employees. They loved to point fingers and take no responsibility. Nothing like having an upper management senior principal/branch manager call you at 7 AM in the morning and asked to provide a list as to what time his managers and field team entered the office and how often I saw them taking breaks. Again, I was like their puppet, and the joke was on me but I won in the end ! And by reading these reviews, I can see that not much has changed in the past five years

Dangerous!!!! Project managers are overstressed and budgets are tight. Many times I would ask to see a field site before a full day of field work but they wouldn't want to pay for me to spend a day becoming familiar with a project site. They also wouldn't want to pay for another staff member to do what should have been a two person job to come out with me, so I would be juggling way too much work and pressure alone. They would send me out ALONE, often in inclement weather, to take surface water samples somewhere hours away that I had never even seen before. Tolerance of error was negligible. If a sample site was inaccessible (often happened because no one would actually view these sites beforehand and samples sites were chosen via google maps) the project managers had a kind of eyes shut "we don't care how it gets done, get it done" approach that led to lots of dangerous situations like trying to climb down steep ravines during rainstorm flood conditions or taking samples under a freeway overpass full of baking concrete when temperatures were over 100 degrees. They took advantage of young new hires that didn't realize they could say no. Lots of other things I could say here re: low pay, no work life balance, manipulative project managers, many holidays being unobserved, low PTO, unrealistic expectations, private equity ownership but the main thing I need people to understand who are considering working here is that this company does not value your safety!!