Stantec reviews

- Stantec has been in layoff mode in most sectors for the past 2 years. Hiring is almost non-existent at this time, but the CEO keeps making acquisitions at pitching it as great news to the company. - Health benefits have been completely cut. The default is now no MSP coverage, no dental, no prescription medication coverage. There is the option to keep the same level of coverage before the cuts, but at a cost of $4,000 in annual premiums. The company basically gave every employee a $4,000 pay cut during Christmas. - All employees are expendable. You are only valued if you can meet your utilization target. Otherwise, you can be a worker bee, team lead, managing lead or principal...it doesn't matter. The pink slip may be coming to you soon, although management seems to be targeting poor performers and those deemed to be overpaid first. - The CEO is basically a blank slate. There's nothing more demoralizing to the thousands of employees than losing peers to layoffs, having your hours cut or your benefits cut, while not hearing a peep about it from the CEO. Or getting a generic email from the CEO about yet another acquisition costing hundreds of millions of dollars, and having the company stock prices dip.

Top-down hire and fire culture. Layoffs are common. "Polite and openly friendly with a dagger in your back culture". Managers are well paid, and are always in meetings, rarely in the trenches with project staff. Will blame team members for any problems on their work teams. Middle management, ie Project Managers are more powerful than anyone else, but often refuse to take ownership of project losses, ie of their poor management skills.