Pros
- Friendly peers. - Work-at-home allowed. - Limited micromanaging (depending on your supervisor). - Despite the cuts, the company still compensates professional membership fees. - Career advancement potential, but only if you really put effort into it. Management will not come search you out. You need to go to them and show them what you're made of. - Good clients. I've worked on some of the biggest and most well-known projects in the province. - Great diversity in work. If you're bored of what you're doing, you are able to ask for a mentor to learn a new stream/discipline. Conveniently located along skytrain stations.
Cons
- Stantec has been in layoff mode in most sectors for the past 2 years. Hiring is almost non-existent at this time, but the CEO keeps making acquisitions at pitching it as great news to the company. - Health benefits have been completely cut. The default is now no MSP coverage, no dental, no prescription medication coverage. There is the option to keep the same level of coverage before the cuts, but at a cost of $4,000 in annual premiums. The company basically gave every employee a $4,000 pay cut during Christmas. - All employees are expendable. You are only valued if you can meet your utilization target. Otherwise, you can be a worker bee, team lead, managing lead or principal...it doesn't matter. The pink slip may be coming to you soon, although management seems to be targeting poor performers and those deemed to be overpaid first. - The CEO is basically a blank slate. There's nothing more demoralizing to the thousands of employees than losing peers to layoffs, having your hours cut or your benefits cut, while not hearing a peep about it from the CEO. Or getting a generic email from the CEO about yet another acquisition costing hundreds of millions of dollars, and having the company stock prices dip.
