Pros
The experience, expertise and drive to deliver excellent work that exists at HNTB wins huge, exciting projects that allow great career growth and experience for their engineers. Working in a team of experts and experienced engineers with relationships all over the region is invaluable for a young engineer like myself.also is "employee owned".
Cons
Much of the focus in the last few years has been on increasing profit over delivering excellent work. There is still a passion for client satisfaction but as management has changed it has begun to slip and unless this company is pointed in a different course it will most likely be aquired by a large conglomerate. Although "employee owned" it is controlled by a board of non engineers who technically "work" for the company. In reality the majority shareholders function as a controlling board and the entire employee group gets 1/100 of the vote.