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5.0
21 May 2026

Great place to work, supportive team

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Great place to work, supportive team and manager. People including senior leadership position holders are genuinely nice and very approachable.

Cons

This may just be me, but I think there may not seem like a lot of room to advance in terms of career growth.

2.0
13 Jan 2026

Job some security but at what cost

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Direct team is fantastic and the work is interesting. There is an abundance of working coming down the pipeline. You get a tool of trade vehicle depending on your function which I guess is a bonus. You learn a lot and lead end to end of projects. Long term contracts across SEQ and an unthinkable amount of work is expected over the next 10 years

Cons

Massive change in culture- the company and the program has shifted from people focus to the bottom line. This is understandable, however, the lack of transparent and honest communication around this cultural and even work conditions has left something to be desired. The company depends flexibility and high performance from the the employee but not from them. To add insult to injury the pay is welllllll below tier 1 companies considering the millions if not billions of dollars of profit they make. They sell the deam of team work, collaboration, “family” culture but it's all spin for the most part. And you can be on call but it is called “reasonable outside of work hrs”. Lack of growth (title wise) in some functions is very limited.

2.0
18 Jan 2026

No Job Security

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Great team to work with

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Job security Pay isn't good

5.0
9 Dec 2025

Good company/people

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Everyone's review is subjective. My experience was fantastic, sure some long/stressful days, but overall was good support from team and good culture

Cons

None. Work is work. Have a good attitude

3.0
5 Nov 2025

Not a bad place

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Supportive team Work life balance Good salary

Cons

Complex projects and always under budgeted Not much pipeline of works

5.0
5 Jan 2026

great team

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it has small teams with cutting-edge technologies

Cons

we worked from home for 2 years

2.0
19 Nov 2025

Rewarding Failure

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- You get promotion for failing - You get promotion when you get harassments complain - You will be rewarded for ruining relationship with client - one of Downer pillar. It used to be good, but careful when manager who didnt know what they are doing taking over, time to jump ship. Thankful for the opportunity that I could have an experience to build a team that delivering well, but get destroyed by some clown in management.

Cons

- Too much security and IT system is very frustrating slow. - Slow process in getting anything done. - no redundancy benefit, no outplacement, just standard.

4.0
23 Jan 2026

Great oppurtunity for growth

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Great oppurtunitt for growth and good pay

Cons

Unsupportive manager, great team and executive leadership

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