Arcadis reviews

3.9

75% would recommend to a friend

(4,542 total reviews)
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61% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Arcadis has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 4,542 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Arcadis employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Servicios de construcción, reparación y mantenimiento industry (3.7 stars).

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4.0
Feb 7, 2014

Great company in a tough industry

Recommend
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Pros

ARCADIS is a great large company in the environmental consulting industry. If you have a supportive supervisor and manager, there are almost limitless opportunities for junior staff to gain a variety of field experiences. I've had many opportunities to travel across the country to different sites and other colleagues have had international opportunities as well (rare in the environmental industry). As far as the industry goes, only a few other companies would be a better place to end up than ARCADIS and only with tradeoffs.

Cons

We are underpaid for what we do, but that is the industry norm. You will make more money if you work in another industry. If you want to get rich, become an exploration geologist or petroleum engineer and move to Houston. You will make 3 times as much money becoming an employee for ARCADIS's clients in the oil & gas industry or mining industry. We do not increase client profits, we can only reduce their environmental liabilities. Different clients have different strategies for managing their liabilities. If you work for a client that isn't interested in technical (and more expensive) outcomes to their liabilities, you will not get to do the exciting work. Depending on the client team, you will be pressured to perform impossible feats (i.e. producing a 40 hour product in 8 hours of billable work). As an employee at ARCADIS, you need to act as if you are an independent contractor and market yourself to the better client teams within the company.

1.0
Sep 10, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Good overall compensation and bonus. Medical insurance benefits better than most. Some great fellow employees and friends from BBL.

Cons

A constant utilization pressure. Constant layoffs due to acquisitions, reorganizations, and profit motivation. Very short term perspective. Will need to continue to acquire firms to be successful, because they cannot maintain a sustainable profitable business the way they operate.

2.0
Dec 18, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of work, so you don't have to worry too much about staying billable. However, the good opportunities are hard to come by (i.e. ones to learn and advance, work reasonable schedules, get recognition for your work). I've heard other offices are a lot better to be in than HR.

Cons

It's not a friendly office environment. People are very competitive or completely checked out. The main problem is the way they setup 'supervisors.' Most junior staff do very little to no direct work for their supervisor. It's a once a year meeting kind of thing, with supervisors taking no interest and never 'going to bat' for people getting raises/advancements. Also yes, as others have noted, the management changes frequently in this office, I don't know what it means, but it's not good. Your billability goal will be much higher than similar companies. You are pretty much expected to work overtime to meet these goals.

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