HDR reviews

Company growth and drive to minimize corporate overhead limits employee training, assignments, promotion, and individual opportunity. Company culture and management seems to be treading toward a singular focus on stock price, resulting in high utilization goals, lots of unpaid after hours work and marketing, loss of career training and advancement, and work/life balance. Limited managers at regional and corporate levels spreads support and leadership thin resulting in inadequate engagement and input at the program and project level. Must be plugged into the HDR hierarchy and have relationship with leadership to advance and weather slow periods when the local market have downturns. Willing to travel and relocate key to job security and career advancement.

Layoffs are always a concern when working at a consulting firm. While I personally did not experience this it is demoralizing to see others get the boot all the same. It was also very difficult to get completely involved with the project given that you are typically only involved with the design of the project. I have always been a person that likes to do the design and help implement it in the field. This is not a reflection on HDR specifically more of a generalization of most engineering firms as a whole.