Stantec reviews

The company leadership answers to the shareholders, full stop. Several big acquisitions (Cardno most recently) have notably shifted the culture toward ever greater reliance on metrics reporting and zero-tolerance emphasis on utilization (the dumbest metric to track because of its ripple effects on other indicators, but the no-brainer first talking point from the management consultants). Risk management is out of control, but not doing what it's supposed to, presumably because of the competing profit motives exerting greater pressure on employees ans managers. It had promise at one point to follow a different path from the other AE mega-firms, but that's been abandoned as the institutional investors have pushed harder for squeezing more revenue out of clients. Its low-margin areas of innovation and distinction are likely not going to be around much longer. As a result, day to day interaction with other employees is increasingly transactional and competitive.

Leadership is not willing to let you shine, they want to control every process and be the main lead. Your career will not grow here. No creativity- this is a team that cares more about "getting things done" than doing things well. Projects are bad, working mostly on government jobs, industrial work, etc. If you are looking for local creative jobs- this isn't it. Not forward thinking- not willing to look at other ways of doing things, it's leaderships way or no way. Leadership picks favorites- they will get the "good" work. The rest of the team is pretty much left to figure things out themselves.