Stantec reviews

No professional services company (such as Architectural and Engineering Design) should ever be a publicly traded company. Ultimately, the client looses to the investors. Too big and too slow to change.

Stantec is a large Canadian-based company that acquires many architectural, engineering and related firms each year. From what I saw, Stantec's integration of the acquired companies in the US is disorganized, rounds of layoffs soon follow, and the remaining employes of the acquired companies are demoralized. Although Stantec brands itself as a company that "puts people first", I didn't see or experience that in practice. No one in senior management seemed to care that there was a lack of work-life balance and people were expected to work long hours on a regular basis. In my experience, everyone was expected to cater to some very difficult managers, even when their demands and expectations were unreasonable or not good for business. Stantec's IT systems were surprisingly outdated, especially given the vast size of the company.