CH2M reviews

The downward trajectory of this company really took off when Lee McIntire took over. It appears he is doing whatever he can to grow the company and increase stock prices (at the detriment of his employee's well being), so he can enjoy his ridiculous stock-options. This review is for the Environmental Business group only. Nearly impossible to get recognized. Quotas on job performace. Only 20% of staff can exceed expectations, lumping 80% of employees into "average" reviews. Average 2.5% raises last 4 years, while the new CEO has raised his compenstation by nearly 1,000% in the same time frame (from $700,000 to over $12 million). Company's 5 year plan is to grow for the sake of growing. Had 23,000 employees in 2010, goal is to have 40,000 by 2015. No real reason for this has been explained. Stock prices are increasing steadily, but it's not necessarily a good thing. Executives are limiting the amount of compensation to employees in order to artificially drive up share prices. We keep hearing we have had another record year, yet we need to cut back on overhead costs, be 100% billable, and get miniscule raises that do not even keep up with inflation. Salaries are at least 15% lower than competitor's salaries. Morale is ridiculously low. If upper management does not see this in the very near future, CH2M HILL will experience a massive brain drain to its competitiors.

Bi-annual reviews just blown off Managers focus on only the bad, never recognize much of the good work accomplished Salary less than similar jobs at other firms, and treated worse Work tasks are horribly under the capacity of their employees Employees cut-throat based on what little project work there is available As said in other reviews, its all in who sucks up to who, not the quality of work you do... Horrible Cost-Cutting techniques: I was actually told to take my vacation time to sit in the office and Wait for projects to come in. This is not actually vacation, just wasting my hard-earned time making the big-time shareholders rich... Wasteful Overhead: they paid for company happy hours for the upper management (90-100% overhead) while telling the junior employees to be never less that 100% billable. Outright lies to employees: telling us we have a big project as a sure thing coming in, when in it comes down to it our rival engineering company's name is on the contract... Again, lies to employees: I hear repeatedly "Our employees are our biggest asset" Then we are worked like dogs, I commonly worked >70 hr weeks, had to give up nights and weekends, etc, then if you make a mistake in 1 of 100 calculations done after midnight, you are out the door! Wastes client money just because they can. This inflates the budgets and makes us look inefficient, all a result of the Project Manager's incompetence Questionable ethics when it comes to delivery of product to the client....