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"Flexibility and work life balance is good" (in 113 reviews)
"Many opportunities to work on flagship projects" (in 69 reviews)
"Horrible prospects for work-life balance" (in 80 reviews)
"Big company means you're just a number" (in 54 reviews)
Pros
Good pay and life good, challenging
Cons
Hard work and long hours
I worked at AECOM full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Opportunity to work abroad if you are lucky
Cons
Limited pay considering size of company
Advice to Management
Reward your staff. Try to avoid such high staff turnover
I worked at AECOM full-time
Pros
- AECOM continues to get the best projects
Cons
- Old school approach to leadership and management
I worked at AECOM full-time
Pros
Good projects, Good graduate scheme set up, lots of young staff.
Cons
Management style, benefits, job satisfaction is poor
Advice to Management
Rewarding staff adds value and increases team morale
I have been working at AECOM full-time
Pros
very few, easy to move around with, career change within the company is possible, lots of in house expertise
Cons
low pay, people get lost in the system, resource outsourcing, too driven by engineers and accounts and not good design
Advice to Management
hire fewer managers and more people who can actually do the work rather than cheap labour
I worked at AECOM full-time
Pros
Working with top architects and sub consultants on large complex projects with experienced and highly skilled individuals
Cons
Poor line management, small cog, don't see many benefits unless you are very high up in the company
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I worked at AECOM full-time
Pros
- Very large company, financially stable, can ensure long term employment
- Wide range of capabilities, can adapt to market fluctuations more easily than smaller competitors and place you in a position to match your interests (however they probably won't unless you really push for it)
- Offices are almost always located near a local rail station
- Good company health insurance (you have to pay extra for it but worth it)
Cons
- Very dull environment, monotonous projects, a good share of the employees have lost their enthusiasm and have a 'live for the weekend' mentality
- Many graduates/undergraduates spend months with no work to do, which may sound good but in reality it's soul destroying
- Social side is non existent
- I never felt challenged by the work assigned to me, despite all efforts to improve this situation. Many other graduates also share this feeling.
- The company is resistant to any change, at times I've witnessed bullying behaviour from directors
Advice to Management
- Challenge junior employees by giving those with merit more responsibility
- The large scale of some offices as well as the hot desking policy creates an impersonal, unfriendly atmosphere. Perhaps break the office into smaller sections.
- Get employees to site wherever possible, I realise this is an expense however this will boost employees knowledge and awareness (which will improve the standard of their office based work) whilst also improving communication links with clients and companies on joint venture projects.
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I have been working at AECOM part-time (More than a year)
Pros
I work as part of a great team. The size of company means that there's a diverse mix of projects around
Cons
Difficult to get promoted, and quite a few people have left since I started. Morale is quite low at the moment
Advice to Management
Take the time to listen to the employees, thin out the countless levels of middle managers, and read "Reinventing Organisations" by Frédéric Laloux
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I worked at AECOM full-time
Pros
Given good share of responsibility, decision making power from the start. Good team and given opportunity to travel.
Cons
No work-life balance. extremely long working hours quite often and not paid for overtime. Salary was very low (common with other jobs across AECOM) and didn't feel valued. At least 3 days a week would be working 11 hours a day. No balance and often would have burden of work to finish when I got home and accept work calls out of normal working hours to ensure job is done.
Advice to Management
Focus on getting to know your employees and actually paying them for the work their putting in. There's a lot of work to get done so workload needs to be distributed evenly. More time needs to be spent in training employees, not only graduates, but give time to train people to develop more.
I have been working at AECOM full-time
Pros
career development is great for graduates
Cons
no cons to share really
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