Populous reviews

3.6

68% would recommend to a friend

(185 total reviews)
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Bruce Miller

71% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Populous has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 185 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Populous 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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185 reviews
2.0
Jun 1, 2025

Not Great

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some very good talents Friendly atmosphere Nice office

Cons

Long hours at times. Some people are always working long hours, while some are enjoying. No career growth. They will find reasons not to promote or pay the bonus. There is an annual award thing based on peer recommendations, but even if you get some good recommendations, they will ignore it on the next promotion cycle and include someone with literally no recommendations. If they want to promote someone, they will create some recommendations and ignore those who genuinely got them. HR is hopeless. Yearly salary review process is a joke and nothing explained to the employees. No guidance and no clear career path. Interestingly some individuals close to HR are promoted yearly. Your career growth is decided by a group of individuals rather than a peer review process. Talent is not respected and you have to keep asking for your career progression. Several rounds of layoffs last year and expecting it again this year. Some very good talents were fired. No clarifications about the process and the way people are chosen. Even if you are talented, if you are on higher pay scale, you are at risk.

4.0
May 21, 2025

Decent

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great Culture and awesome people to work with

Cons

- Definite hierarchy and long hours

5.0
May 18, 2025

Good place to work

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Best environment very good exposure to good range of projects

Cons

Office politics which is common in all offices soo it’s okay

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