Company is going in the wrong direction - Anyonymous Employee Stantec Employee Review

1.0
Jul 7, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The people and work events not organised by the business

Cons

Management at all levels. Especially at business director levels. The business has taken a complete wrong turn in terms of flexible working and its attitude towards staff, with minimal compensation increases. Apprentices and Graduates aren't given proper development opportunities, typically stuck doing the same repetitive technician work and are not given access to a lot of the software due to a lot of gatekeeping from the business stunting their development to ensure they don't overequip with you skills ensuring you can leave

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5.0
Feb 25, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Seems caring of its individual employees

Cons

Very large and spread out company so communication can be difficult

2.0
May 15, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Hybrid Work and access to useful engineering tools

Cons

Projects are inconsistent in organization and structure (some good some bad). High (and strict) utilization requirements of >93% for entry level and mid level engineers results in overtime with overlapping work loads to avoid any downtime between projects. No development or mentorship strategy around work assignments, the main goal is to keep utilization up. Stantec has been very focused on cutting costs by offshoring, limiting conference attendance, reducing volunteer hours, no tuition reimbursement, multiple layers of approvals to attend in-office CPR training, etc. Very corporate environment and top heavy management with over 240+ “Vice Presidents” currently at the company. Difficult to get raises/promotions besides annual raise. Typical raise is ~3-5% with a good review depending on where your current salary is in relation to the pay range for your career level.

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