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3.3

58% would recommend to a friend

(1,181 total reviews)
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Jacqueline Hinman

56% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

CH2M has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,181 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CH2M 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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3.0
Aug 29, 2014

Good company, if you work in the right group

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Huge company (30,000+) with an international presence. Great campus, good benefits, which of course are getting not as good thanks to Obamacare. There's a cafeteria and a health club on site, and the company participates in many community causes and activities.

Cons

The company decided in recent years to go to the giant 'bull pen' type of desk arrangement meaning you have no privacy at all and can hear everything that's said around you due to the 3 foot high walls between cubes. The culture at least where I was was very strict and stifling, clock watchers, even though I was a salaried employee expected to work whatever hours (after hours) it took to get the job done. If you like a lot of rigid structure and rules this probably wouldn't bother you. There a perception that this company doesn't lay people off, but that's not true. It's just not public knowledge generally. I saw it happen quite frequently while I was there.

3.0
Aug 28, 2014

CH2M Hill

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Competitive salaries and benefits. Opportunity to move around the country in other locations and affiliates.

Cons

Favoritism among long time employees. Expect professionals to do all their own clerical work resulting in 50-60 hour work weeks at times.

2.0
Aug 28, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting project work lots of challenging projects that can help you build your skill set. Very strong and talented people. Good paid time off after five years. Good front line management. Very flexible work schedule, ability to work from home often or telecommute full time. Employee ownership.

Cons

Very bad management at the enterprise level. Multiple managers doing the same job as a result of constant reorganization of management. Very poor business planning. The most important goal of management has been short term stock price increase. Stretch projections provided by the BD group are unrealistically augmented. This gives the perception that goals are being set base on what is needed to increase the stock price rather than what can realistically be achieved. Goals are missed and massive overhead cuts occur. This has been the theme for the past couple years. Micromanagement of projects by some of the project delivery managers. The environmental group is viewed as a second class outfit, even though this is the most profitable group.

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