Exponent Employee Reviews

Company is structured to benefit high ranking people and not the ones doing the work.

This is a bad career move, when they recruit they paint themselves as a company with a wide variety of engineering work, but in practice most of the work comes from litigation and has little engineering value. If you want to remain an engineer, working here will hurt your prospects of finding a job

Flexible, down to earth, listen well.

Manager is non existent until there is a problem

To listen to the ones doing the work.

It is a standard package

Because I spend hours there making sure the work is done correctly while the ones that don’t and have preferential treatment get away with i

The annual bonus for lower level staff are incredibly low (less than $500/year), this is specially true if you work and cash a lot of overtime. So in the management's mindset, working overtime is a reward. But working long hours is often not a choice, the projects would demand it.

Berating subordinates is not productive in meetings.

Co-workers are often smart and interesting. They also have very diverse academic backgrounds. However, the organization as a whole is not very diverse, with very few consultants representing minorities.

For higher ups to respect their subordinates and reward them better.

This place is incredibly greedy and deaf to complaints and concerns from junior and mid level staff. Management really doesn't want to listen and wants to paint a rosy picture and avoid the problem. They just burn out fresh-out-of-school PhDs for a new batch every few years, and don't look back

The Senior Associate was not rigid, and made it comfortable to engage in the interview conversation. I enjoyed it, actually!

Nothing could be done because Exponent only needs bodies so they can bill more time.

Autonomy, flexibility in working from home, or taking time to sleep in, but come to office as needed, and take care of all my work duties in-office in my own time/schedule. I can plan things in my day like a doctor's appt or running an errand, usually, when needed.

Company requires charges to be high and counts on lower ranked people to sacrifice their time. Cheaper and more reasonable work would help customers feel more appreciated.