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      HDR

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      4.1

      79% would recommend to a friend

      (1,811 total reviews)
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      John W. Henderson

      90% approve of CEO

      86% positive business outlook

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      HDR has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,811 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The HDR employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).

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      2K reviews
      3.0
      Jul 11, 2024

      Highly conservative leadership

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Decent pay depending on where you are, good internal talent base, and opportunities to travel.

      Cons

      Politically conservative upper management, not transparent, poor design quality of projects, poor relationship between leadership and workers.

      2.0
      Jul 7, 2024

      Global matrixed firm; experience varies by group

      Senior project manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Especially for younger professionals, can be a good company for quickly gaining experience on many projects (though this is also possible for motivated employees at other companies and in the public sector) - For those with well-defined roles and disciplines, can be a supportive and productive environment - While it depends on role, salaries can be quite good - Many offices across Canada and globally, making it easy to locate or relocate close to one, and (in theory, at least) workshare - Employee ownership means the opportunity to own company shares (or equivalent Deferred Share Units, in Canada)

      Cons

      - Matrix structure adds to bureaucracy and makes it hard to know who is in charge (I found it more bureaucratic than every government organization I had worked for previously) - People management is extremely weak - clear focus is project management and prioritizing billable and high-paying work for clients (often at the expense of providing a supportive and structured environment for most employees and teams) - Senior leadership in Canada extremely disconnected from the issues people are dealing with at the lower/mid leadership (middle management) level - A lot of confusion within the organization about whether it is matrixed, projectized, or hierarchical, wasting a lot of time and causing a lot of aggravation - Generally a worse experience for anyone who is not a traditional architect or engineer (internal code word: Cross Sector) - Very slow to hire...and fire - Workshare between offices often does not work as expected - a lot of unproductive internal competition that makes starting anything new extremely difficult

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