Top notch environmental and transport firm lets you excel if you treat your time as a 'career' instead of a 'job' - Env Engineer CDM Smith Employee Review

5.0
8 Apr 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Great recognition in the municipal marketplace and merger of CDM and Wibur Smith expands the presence - Financially sound - Opportunities for global assignments - Colleagues with great technical abilities

Cons

- Big company with weak project management systems creates some busywork - Need to be your own advocate - Heavy focus on cash management during recession - good for the company, but painful to staff.

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5.0
22 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of training and opportunities

Cons

Company structure can be confusing

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Thank you for taking the time to leave us a 5-star review! It was great to have you as an employee and wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
2.0
18 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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