Engineering - Anonymous employee Genivar Employee Review

Entrepreneurial culture (company has expanded through acquisitions but has not enforced a "mould" in new units) Resources of a large engineering consulting firm (experts, marketing support) Professional development opportunities Get more responsibility as you prove yourself Recognition for a job well done Work-life balance & benefits (flexible hours, tuition reimbursement, "banking" overtime hours to be exchanged for days off, salary increase if LEED certified) Team culture (can call or knock on anyone's door at any time for advice or info) Top management recognizes importance of "fresh blood" and is supporting professional development through project leadership opportunities Social and charitable participation & leadership opportunities Markham office is very car-accessible from any direction

Pay probably below median for industry , but pay scales are being revised Depending on who your boss is, your experience could vary (some people were "grandfathered" into senior positions due to previously heading smaller shops that were bought out and have used junior staff to do pure grunt work) Office not very transit-accessible

pros... what pros? Oh the CEOs look good in a suit

This company eats smaller firms for breakfast!! They will buy out small successful firms and not apply those thriving work ethics to there "overall plans". They give regular seminars or presentations on how the company is achieving more growth. While developing partnership with WSP (a UK Based Company), Genivar had done a massive lay off of HUNDREDS (approx. 400) of employee's in eastern Canada.. incapable of maintaining regular work flow of projects coming in and lack of communication between such a large number of offices. It's a disorganize chaos!! Rather than fixing or improving the growing pains and extremely undeveloped consistency through out it's own offices, the company continuously chooses to ignore these ongoing problems and diverts it's attention on the "Genivar worldwide concept". Genivar is taking more bites than it can chew... guess who will eventually choke? Prior to Genivar buying out the company, we had a family like atmosphere, the company name was getting out more and more and we were working on large scale projects!! That's when Genivar's undying appetite to expand found us and bought us...They fed us false reassurance that things were not going to change... Genivar is successful, a team building company, supporting the community.. YA RIGHT!!! The office I worked for has reduce it's number of employee's dramatically, lost it's charitable aspects and involvement towards the community and practically shut it's doors...thanks Genivar!!!! Genivar ..."Improving lives...." what a joke!!! more like destroying them...