Sinking Ship - Project Manager CDM Smith Employee Review

1.0
18 Jun 2016
Recommend
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Pros

if you are an incompetent engineer and laidback person; want to produce nothing & work 30 or less but want to get paid 40hours/week, it is a perfect place for you

Cons

1. No backlogs at all. They will ask you to take your vacations or work reduced hours if you are PM or lower grades. Upper management still gets paid fully. 2. Very large layers of managers consist white American incompetent men with no direction or vision and get paid boat of salary and company stocks. 3. Very small offices with large management without production staff. No chance to win any new projects 4. Racism is the culture in the company and specially in southern offices. They do not respect diversity and foreigners. Women and foreigners do not have any growth positions. Foreigners are treated like sweatshop workers.

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5.0
22 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of training and opportunities

Cons

Company structure can be confusing

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2.0
18 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible hybrid schedule is very nice and starting salary is high for early career engineers.

Cons

The main people running the company are not engineers and you can tell. They are all focused on utilization with rates often set at 97% or higher. This had led to my supervisor asking/telling me to not charge company required trainings. As an early engineer it really feels like they don't want to invest in me and only care about their bottom line. If you are an early career structural engineer you will also not get any meaningful work until you've been with the company for at least 5 years. The senior engineers do not trust you and will only give you grunt work.

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