GHD Reviews

where to start? first of all, if you represent the female 50% of the world's population, DONT BOTHER. if you you are a non-white person, a non-straight person, an old person, or a young person, DONT BOTHER. only middle aged, white, heterosexual male engineers find success at this firm, and they are boystrously proud of that. upper management consists of approximately 200 principals/shareholders, and a grand total of EIGHT are women. eight. when less than 5% of your management team are women and over 25% of your technical staff are women, you have a problem. when you preach that employees MUST work at least 50 hours per week (im not joking, younger staff who are SALARIED are told that if they dont work over 50 hours per week, they can forget about advancement) and you offer no overtime and have some if the highest rates in the industry, you have a problem. when you have countless sexual harassment complaints and a daily barrage of casual soft sexism in your workplace, you have a problem. when you persist in your attempt to cater to the boys club and hire an excessive amount of engineers when you dont do any hard engineering and engineers make an order of magnitude more money than scientists, geologist, hydrologists, you have a problem. when you get off on making your employees feel like garbage in a futile, antiquiated attempt to fuel competition between staff, you have a problem. when you pit teammates against each other with petty gossip and sophomoric lies, you have a problem. when the only form of diversity training you have is a 15 minute on-boarding video that staff views upon being hired (and most of your workers have been employed there for 10+ years), you have a problem. when you preach hard work and high utilization for advancement all year and then come review time tell your staff that there is "X" amount of money in the pot and you get 1.2% of it whether you worked hard or performed in mediocre fashion, you have a problem. when you have no structured system for advancement and rely on the subjective, singular opinion of your supervisor for a raise or a promotion, you have a problem. when you consistently smother all creative, out-of-the-box thinking with your younger staff, you produce a lazy, jaded, apathetic workforce, and you have problem. when you treat employees like garbage, you have a problem. when you consistently treat employees that are leaving the firm to work at a company that is a client like garbage, you have a problem (and you pay for it, fools). when you hire young staff and tell them time and time again that they will be mentored and led and guided, and dont do a single solitary shred of that and let them float around the world of environmental consulting like lumps in a litter box, you have a problem. when you place raging narcissists and sociopaths with passive aggressive personalities in positions of power in supervisory roles, you have a problem. when your managers hoard projects, hours, and title, and your entry level staff are left to fend for themselves, you have a problem. when the driving force and quantifiable measurement of success at your firm is the utilization numbers of associates and shareholders, you have a problem. this firm is a laughingstock. and it will collapse in on itself like a dying star if it continues to operate under all of the aforementioned "problems". it is a top-heavy, greedy, FAT, unnurtured, boys club, with no refinement, corporate conscience, or accountability. this company is stuck in the dark ages, and according to the people that manage it, they intend to stay right where they are. there is no versatility, no evolution, no mindfulness, no cognitive growth at this firm. it is a comfort zone for all that manage it. it is a time machine that robs you of your days, weeks, months, and years with no hope for advancement, success, or happiness. if you work here, hope for it to only be "just a job", because if you hope for anything more, you will be disappointed.

GHD banked heavily on CRA's oil/gas sector client revenue base when the two firms merged in 2015. When petroleum prices tanked in 2016, the "merger made in heaven" rapidly morphed into an all-out acquisition by GHD, and everything fell apart. The place is a sweat-shop geared to bleed junior- and mid-level staff dry. I'd never work there again, even if they begged.