Poor Management - Anonymous employee Stantec Employee Review

3.0
11 Dec 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Fun field work, diverse projects, good people. Nice offices.

Cons

Management does not appear to know what they are doing. They are not aware of the abilities (or not) of their staff. There are a lot of incompetent staff there going unnoticed because the review process involves writing your own yearly review with minimal checking from supervisors. No one keeps track of how you are actually developing or if you have poor skills. They have a disorganized hiring process, when I was hired there was confusion for the actual position I was hired for. I didnt want to do the job some thought I was hired for so I just got involved in different things and no one seemed to notice.

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