Directionless - Senior Project Manager CDM Smith Employee Review

1.0
20 Nov 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits. Thats it.

Cons

Too many to list! Very few project opportunities - they have decided to focus on only the mega-projects, so for a given office there may be only 1 or 2 projects in the works, which makes career advancement nearly impossible. The company president only cares about the numbers - he has zero appreciation of the people - and beats a tired drum 'that the company isn't making enough money'. Mind you they've had record revenue years 3 out of the past 4, but no revenue or profit sharing with employees. They are rolling out new software initiatives every couple of months without care that the company staff aren't able to keep up. Everyone has impossible utilization goals. They are shrinking every office across the company and forcing staff with 30 years of experience to sit in call-center cubicle arrangements.

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5.0
22 Apr 2026
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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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