Great work environment - Anonymous employee Stantec Employee Review

5.0
4 Apr 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Stantec's work policy is fairly flexible. They have the framework set up to work from home, and hours are flexible to accommodate people's lifestyle. Internal training programs allow for employees to direct their own career path if they want to become more technical or business or human resource oriented. Relatively young management base gives some confidence that an ambitious junior employee can climb the corporate ladder quickly.

Cons

The young management base also means that they are often inexperienced. Especially when it comes to project managers. While their technical abilities are often great, many engineers and scientists who are PMs lack the subtle leadership skills to effectively lead motivate the team.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Hybrid Work and access to useful engineering tools

Cons

Projects are inconsistent in organization and structure (some good some bad). High (and strict) utilization requirements of >93% for entry level and mid level engineers results in overtime with overlapping work loads to avoid any downtime between projects. No development or mentorship strategy around work assignments, the main goal is to keep utilization up. Stantec has been very focused on cutting costs by offshoring, limiting conference attendance, reducing volunteer hours, no tuition reimbursement, multiple layers of approvals to attend in-office CPR training, etc. Very corporate environment and top heavy management with over 240+ “Vice Presidents” currently at the company. Difficult to get raises/promotions besides annual raise. Typical raise is ~3-5% with a good review depending on where your current salary is in relation to the pay range for your career level.

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