AECOM Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Excellent employers that are always approachable. Great work environment and interesting work.There is always the possibility of promotions too."

"Good staff, but middle management is in chaos and upper management is clueless."

What do you like about working at AECOM?

"Good pay and benefits with flexible hours and paternity leave options"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Great place to start but don't plan to retire from here (nobody does except those forced out from companies AECOM buys). Show ambition and drive to get in, build your skills, and move on to a place you want to finish your career."

What don't you like about working at AECOM?

"AECOM treats employees like just another number and does not value individuals as people. We all know we will be cut on a whimsy of upper management."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Value people. Invest in the company instead of the quick 30 day return; think strategy over a year. Empower employees and quit micromanaging. Replacing all the North American leadership would be a good start."

What do you like about working at AECOM?

"The people over all were great but management was short sighted, moral is now at an all time low"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Keep promises of training and internal organic growth, stop with the staff cut backs"

What don't you like about working at AECOM?

"promises of training but never available, only for senior employees. Frequent consolidation and downsizing."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"find a way to boost morale and not outsource so much when they said they would not"

"AECOM Inc. was a good company to work for on contract."

What do you like about working at AECOM?

"Good project leadership and field support. Fair wages and payments."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be honest and know your field of work."

What don't you like about working at AECOM?

"ALL was Good, the people in the office, reception, documentation all good."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get more projects that would requiring rehiring me and more consultants."

What do you like about working at AECOM?

"Lots of work, high profile projects, steady career progression, lots of leash."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be prepared for the long haul; if you're coming from a corporate environment, you'll probably do ok - otherwise yikes."

What don't you like about working at AECOM?

"AECOM has amalgamated a number of legacy companies, with little regard for integrating the management, staff and policies that made the former companies great. We're left with an overbearing corporate bureaucracy that makes promises and plans, with little follow up."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Simplify organizational structure, recognize different business cultures, empower mid managers and project managers with authority to run projects as necessary."

What do you like about working at AECOM?

"Builds the community and tries to help the environment. Always changing."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be excited about developing and protecting your local community - it will be what you do every day."

What don't you like about working at AECOM?

"Tremendous amounts of change. 5 departments in 4 years, 11 bosses in in 9 years."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would modernize more of our systems and remove the roadblocks (people) that limit innovation and change."

"Great place to work!!"

What do you like about working at AECOM?

"The People are the heart and sole of AECOM INC."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Have a cover letter and be confident. Make eye contact."

What don't you like about working at AECOM?

"I liked everything about the company. I would work their forever if not for the structure changes."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would suggest they look at their client base and offer more innnovative solutions."

What do you like about working at AECOM?

"I enjoy working on a design team with great people. It's gratifying to work with people all over the world on important projects. AECOM has a strong commitment to setting industry standards for client services."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"In order to work with this company, it's important to be able to work well with people. One of the strong value's we have is the involvement of working as a team. This means everyone should have excellent skills in their profession and communicate with others."

What don't you like about working at AECOM?

"I don't have any negative comments about my company. However I'm disappointed that it seems we've lost focus on the clients in our region. Most of the projects I've worked on in the past few years have been with different offices in other regions."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"A major suggestion for management is to regain a strong focus for a smaller client base. My opinion is that we've don't bother working with clients unless it offers top design fees."

"Magnificent, informative, inspiring and growth oriented"

What do you like about working at AECOM?

"Team of intelligent and cooperative people having a common goal of delivering quality work and make a name for themselves and for the company in this competitive business of civil engineering"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Yes, be true to yourself what you want from the opportunity and find out a way to grow with the companies growth and give back to the society"

What don't you like about working at AECOM?

"Lack of enthusiasm, lack of drive and not in alignment with companies vision of being successful from time to time"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Provide training for new technology and management skills, motivation to the employees with weekly or monthly motivational programs and make them believe everyday to work something significantly important for the company, for them and ultimately for the society"

"Excellent experience working as contract recruiter in the Middle East."

What do you like about working at AECOM?

"Very systematic way of recruiting. Daily routine was predictable and very smooth."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be thoroughly prepared to give a self evaluation of past experience, in particular, your strengths."

What don't you like about working at AECOM?

"Limited upward mobility. Very stable company but too top heavy."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More timely communication. A little more of a support system would be highly appreciated."

"This was a horrible experience"

What do you like about working at AECOM?

"I didn't this was a just a job for me"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make sure you don't come with new ideas they may not be heard here"

What don't you like about working at AECOM?

"I didn't like that the company didn;t honor certain holidays and not open to changes"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would suggest that management take a diversity course to expand their horizons"

"Project oriented staffing, no lifetime employment"

What do you like about working at AECOM?

"Exposure to interesting and complex construction projects due to company size"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make sure you hire into a long term project with a good team"

What don't you like about working at AECOM?

"They do not promote from within and don't offer professional growth opportunities"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep the good apples and throw out the moldy ones"

"Abusive environment at AECOM"

What do you like about working at AECOM?

"Some colleagues were OK. Building was well presented and centrally located."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't work for AECOM under any circumstances unless you like feeling abused, unappreciated undervalued, undermined, threatened and insecure. Don't believe anything they say about it being a great place to work. It isn't. It's a taste of hell. There are plenty of alternatives."

What don't you like about working at AECOM?

"Backstabbing, evil, thieving, abusive, lying people who take credit for the work of others. Corrupt and incompetent management. Constant harrassment about utilization. Promotion of bullies and dishonest managers. Pack of wolves."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Take complaints about bullying seriously and don't promote such people. Value technical expertise instead of utilization."

"Fulfilling, fast paced, happy to work for a company that does good work globally"

What do you like about working at AECOM?

"Good environment and good people a basically stable company who provides good services to people and the environment"

What don't you like about working at AECOM?

"Getting laid off after 10 years holiday events with no spouses allowed"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Follow through with promised training, I have no other suggestions"

"Largest design firm in US with experiences to travel internationally"

What do you like about working at AECOM?

"Able to manage and multi-tasking meeting clients (Irvine Company), travel for international projects."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You need to be top of the class to work for this company, but welling to learn is always a key to success in any company"

What don't you like about working at AECOM?

"like everything except not able to use connections I have in Asia countries"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"EDAW is a great company for learning in many areas, only suggestion would be to provide more real world construction experiences."