Interesting variety of projects to work on world wide. Company heavily favors high visibility projects (i.e. PFAS)
Cons
Local communities and small company feel abandoned for mega pursuits. Many local clients lost due to lack of service, experience, and interest in supporting them.
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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.