Great Potential, too bad for the working culture - Research Engineer ERDC Employee Review

2.0
1 Dec 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Interesting Projects -Flexible for leave (sick or annual) -Flexible in projects you get to work with -Depending on the project you are working on, you have access to a lot of resources for needed equipment purchases.

Cons

- Good old boy system - Nepotism, too much, extreme. - Many like to get credit for work they didn't do -Plenty of lazy people, doing the least possible - It is in Vicksburg, MS - Incompetence or lack of knowledge on the technical side is "celebrated". Promotions are given to those that teams want to get "rid of"

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5.0
5 Jan 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the most amazing and intelligent people to work around that push you to learn more

Cons

At the same time also has some of the laziest and least contributing people I have worked with

4.0
20 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

As an intern, school is at the top of the priority list, ERDC shares these values. They have been flexible with my schedule throughout my time with them as I complete my B.S. in IT. The team of engineers we have been paired with have also been fantastic. They know we don't have a decade of experience, like some of them do, and that shows in our meetings when we show simple data translation to them, and they still ask questions (even if they potentially already know the answer to it). I highly recommend working here, I have had better experiences than bad.

Cons

When the government shutdown in 2025, someone dropped the ball prior to, which didn't secure funding for the interns for the next funding year. This left us out of work for 6 months. We are hosted by another facility, who has been wonderful, but creating a better channel of communication between that facility and ERDC is what would help prevent these sorts of problems. Not even from team to team, but from department to department like legal to legal for example.

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