Avoid GHD Golden at all costs. - Senior Engineer GHD Employee Review

1.0
20 Jan 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Location in Golden, very nice co-workers at the staff level, offices were very nice.

Cons

This office does not provide a work environment that allows people to produce good work. Management bullies and undermines employees; management never has meetings in which employees can contribute to the discussion about project scheduling and project requirements; and management speaks poorly about non-present employees to other employees. Management lies about employees to Human Resources and then Human Resources and upper air management acquiesce. Management's approach in this office is to control employees through intimidation and divisiveness. For over 20 years working in professional settings, I've rarely experienced such a system where management feels that highly skilled and trained engineers and scientists must be controlled by bullying tactics. GHD must spend many thousands on the vetting and background checks for each of their engineers. Why does management then treat employees as though they need to be intimidated and berated? It's amazing to me that the office manages to stay in business, given that their engineering skills are mediocre at best, while their people-management and selling skills score total negatives.

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5.0
28 May 2026
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Pros

Evolving with the times to best serve client needs. Investing in employee learning. Attracting high caliber talent.

Cons

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4.0
19 Jun 2026
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Pros

Great starting point as an internship, gives you good experience to the professional and consulting world, pay for an engineering intern is satisfactory. Values of the company and support from coworkers is appreciated. Seems to be a psychologically safe place to work and make mistakes. No noticeable workplace toxicity or politics. Everyone seems to be authentic and chill. Not noticing anyone keeping their heads down and received reports of satisfaction with work environment from coworkers. Exposure to a variety of projects, including field work experiences. Seems to be a solid resume builder.

Cons

Need to be pretty proactive for work. For me who enjoys having work to do, its kind of stressful. You have to take initiative in making your own plan. For someone who thrives in structure and needs a bit of help in planning, this is a struggle. Limited flexibility in doing a hybrid role (even though job description stated it was when I applied) For someone who is 42 mi from the office and with heavy traffic takes 1h 15 min to reach the office, its a struggle. But I understood that my commute time is longer than average when I took the position.

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