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Q&A With AECOM Employees
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How employees describe working at AECOM
Great company with great people
All is good at AECOM
I haven’t met anyone from the te
Nothing they lack real life experience
Overall best company in consulting services
What it's like to work at AECOM
- AECOM employees generally work 9.3 hrs a day
- Employees at AECOM report the work pace is comfortably fast
- On a typical day, employees at AECOM have 1 meeting
- 79% of AECOM employees look forward to interacting with their team every day
- AECOM employees most often take 15-20 paid vacation and sick days each year
- 56% of AECOM employees report they are happy with their work life balance
- AECOM employees never get valuable feedback on how to improve at work
- 63% of AECOM employees call their work environment positive
Q&A With AECOM Employees
IDX: 0 TOT: 97
How much and how often do raises happen at AECOM?
2-3% once a year Been like that at least the last 12 years.
I worked at AECOM for over 20 years and never once had a raise.
1.5% for 2019 which is insulting.
How's the work life balance at AECOM?
Lots of overtime due to employee shortages
Poor. Strong emphasis on 100% billability, along with an uncertain backlog means there is no reserve capacity for work when it comes in and no appetite for hiring. This means most people are always working overtime.
depends on your office and your boss
What does the leadership team at AECOM need to get better at?
Aknowledge employees , don't be so quick to write up an employee but "forget " to give an attaboy once in awhile...
Give a raise
Leadership is out of touch and resented by employees.
How do you feel about going to work at AECOM everyday?
Love my work and my team
great flexibility but worry about my job daily
People are great to work with, though sometimes I feel that being a corporate drone really hurts my self image
What do people at AECOM think about the CEO? What do they do well and what can they improve?
If he knew what engineering was it would be bonus. Look at the share price it’s like a slow yo-yo. When IPO went ahead $40 was expected in 10 years. The hierarchy are on very good renumeration , but what are they doing. Moral is down, the IT infrastructure required for the job is a joke. The outsourcing of everything only brings despondency.
Doesn’t know the little people
An accountant as CEO of an engineering company results in everything coming down to the bottom line. There's no regard for how engineering work is done. If everyone is billable, good. That's how it feels.
If you could make changes, how would you improve the culture at AECOM?
Focus on the client and the employees. There is a large focus on making money, not much else.
Change the financial tracking system for PM's
better pay and much better healthcare
What's the office layout like at AECOM?
Top Employee Response
Open office, Victorian shop layout with long rows of desks. Stark white with some planters.
Horrible open office layout that distracts from doing work
open office
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation at AECOM?
Horrible health benefits. More expense, less coverage than my last employer. They told me my target bonus was achievable, total lie
Salary is fair, other benefits are poor.
Micro managed. Management that really doesnt belong in their current positions. Almost always never listen to front line employees.
What needs to change to make the company culture better at AECOM?
Top Employee Response
Compensation. Trust. Better mid level mgmt and above. Recognizing good work would be nice instead of always recogn bad set backs
Fire upper management from assistant supevisor on down in my 12+ years in avaition I've never seen such arrogant incompetence
Start investing in each employee instead of wasting the money on other things
What's going wrong and how can it be improved at AECOM?
Top Employee Response
No trust and sometimes hostile and harassing. Like a good soap opera
Mistakes are punished (even small ones) they're not seen as learning opportunities, no positive recognition. No risk taking, no mentoring
The pay isn't enough for the work we do.
What benefits does AECOM provide?
Top Employee Response
Below average health benefits for a high price. 401k is matched when they get around to it.
Ability to purchase group health/dental/vision insurance, ability to contribute to 401k
have become awful and unusuable
How's the morale at AECOM?
What morale ? Here at Ccad it is non - existent, unless you're management . The random firings are the best part ...
Horrible, everyone is looking for another job.
morale is at an all time low
How does AECOM make decisions around promotions?
survival of the fittest...let everyone know there will be cuts and pit everyone against each other in an interview process with those that survive getting new titles and no raises.
By using a Magic 8 Ball. Not really sure, there is no set requirements for promotions or set career paths.
I have no idea. No one in my office has gotten any kind of promotion or raise in the past two years. It seems like the only way to get a title change/raise is to obtain your architectural license.
How's the feedback proccess at AECOM?
once a year at a review in which everyone needs to fit in a bell curve. This means you will automatically get moved to the middle and have good and bad things said about you by design
Minimal and lacking
It is a once a year formal review process. Outside of that, if you want feedback about your work, in my experience you have to specifically ask your manager for it, and prepare for them to be annoyed.
What kind of people succeed at AECOM?
Those that can work 70+ hours a week succeed at AECOM. Those that will toss the rest of their life to make others look better
People who play politics.
In my experience, the people who succeed are the people who are in the right crowd. Management do not make an effort AT ALL to have a relationship with their employees outside of the yearly appraisal.
What are your coworkers at AECOM like?
I enjoy working with most of my coworkers.
Many great folks here
love my colleagues!
What perk or benefit should AECOM have?
Either an improved work-life balance or the ability to sell earned paid time off back to the company. I’ve reached the maximum accrual for time off and each pay period I lose almost 8 hours of PTO. At the average rate of $102/hr, that’s over $800 every two weeks.
The working week was increased from 37.5 hrs to 40 a few years back with no financial recognition. This was whilst other departments who had been ‘purchased’ continued to 37.5 hrs.
Maybe hold management responsible ? Na! Keep on earning a D - rating ! Y'all earned it....
How's the leadership on the IT team at AECOM?
upper level is awful local level is great
top level has one or two good folks but most are all about bonuses and cutting IT
Outsource heavy
What's the company culture like at AECOM?
Horrible! We are just a number
The company lacks a culture unless "be a number" is a culture.
Focused on revenue and staff utilization. Nothing else.
How can I improve my chances of being hired at AECOM?
Take lower salary
Just talk like you know what you’re talking about without really being able to do real work.
Run the other way! But if your female? Let’s see cowgill told a girl for a BJ he would give her a job! And Diane brooks has moved up to supervisor. Got a DUI still here but if others get DUI we would be fired!!
What's one thing you wish you'd known before joining AECOM?
I would have liked to have known I was just going to be a number
How mediocre the company truly was. I thought you had to be the best and would get the opportunity to work with the best. Nope
How fast it would be going down hill!!! They will be gone pretty quick though
How secure do you feel at your job at AECOM?
I do not feel secure at all as we have had major cuts of 25% or more for at least the last 5 years
Depends on week to week and how many hours you can bill to fee earning work. There is a lot of pressure to be 100% fee earning 100% of the time.
My job is secure! Their contract is not. The compatw
What are you most excited about working at AECOM?
Don't work for them. They care nothing for their employees.
the work and the team i am on
Soldiers. Working with the Soldiers!!
What are some of the best things about your team at AECOM?
Work as a team
We get along
We get along.
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better at AECOM?
Top Employee Response
Nothing. We all work great together. Actually better when mgmt isnt around. Always get the job done.
Team is burned out and hopeless about future.
Start aknowledgeing others work
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Should I work at AECOM?
32% of AECOM employees would encourage their friends to become coworkers, whereas 24% are neutral and 44% would not recommend working at AECOM to their friends.
| 32% | Promoters |
|---|---|
| 24% | Passive |
| 44% | Detractors |
