SCS Engineers reviews

4.0

72% would recommend to a friend

(221 total reviews)
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Doug Doerr

84% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

SCS Engineers has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 221 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SCS Engineers 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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221 reviews
3.0
Aug 28, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Very flexible 40 hours work life balance and remote working ability. Company -employee owned- did a very good job of building a community with local outings, personality test, conferences, and in person trainings. Bonus and good benefits. 3 weeks pto accrued. Worked on various nationwide projects and gained a wide overview experience of different types of budgets and financial operations.

Cons

Billable hours- a lot of time was wasted on projects due to poor job specific training. The slow periods lasted weeks to months but it was emphasized that your billable rate must be at a certain level despite the level of work load being out of your control. Job specific training was non existent and a figure it out approach was used. No two days were the same which can be a pro but due to the inconsistent nature of work, learning fast was a challenge. Manager was a great worker, strict at times with high expectations, but was too busy to train and often delegated work at the last minute. It would take several years for upward mobility in this role.

3.0
May 2, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- Can learn a lot from colleagues, clients, and contractors. - ESOP is a cool benefit of random money that you get for retirement and you don't personally contribute towards it or have to think about it until the yearly reminder of what was added to your account. The amount distributed into your account is based off your salary.

Cons

- Not the best work/life balance. - Offices/BUs can be siloed. It's great that SCS is a nationwide company but you don't always know what other teams/offices are doing.

2.0
Apr 7, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

-some folks outside of projects are cool. Also depends on your business unit and office space -flexibility on hours although OT is often the case

Cons

-If you like the ESOP this could be a plus but for new comers ESOP doesn’t add value. -lack of culture -top heavy (too many PD/VPs) -pigeonholed into select types of projects. Good luck if you want to keep a diverse work portfolio. If you’re good at one thing even though you don’t want to continue that route they will keep you there. -they will move up someone without experience faster than those who have experience -heard they are doing better on pay but when someone with less responsibilities and experience is making more than you it’s not a fun time -lack of communication and understanding from management. They wonder why folks are leaving but don’t make a change -lots of policies and procedure without guidance from management. Said policies and procedures are often forgotten and people do their own thing -training programs aren’t there they throw you into something and see if you sink and if they do have them they are not executed well -you will go far if you’re favored by upper management. If you aren’t good luck getting promotions and career development without having to fight for reasons -if you really look at the reviews the glowing reviews came from Upper management not from employees

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