Stantec reviews

-HR and HR-like-groups are deceptive and adversarial. Benefits are unclear and documentation is sparse, allowing them to abuse situations and make up rules on the spot. Make sure to keep everything and quadruple-check everything before you try to utilize any benefits or HR-provided things like leave or travel. -Corporate seems to lose the forest for the trees. They tend to put a lot of focus and money into things that don't move the needle forward like color schemes and fonts and mottos, or new templates for email signatures, rather than on the things that actually drive the company and/or employee well-being forward. -There is a LOT of administrative work. To do even the most basic of thing, you'll usually have to dedicate 30-80% more time just to admin/bureaucracy to get that thing done, depending on the magnitude of the task.

The difficulty in the UK is the underlying culture is still MWH. Heavy framework focus, little appreciation of smaller projects. Systems and procedures heavy. Not nimble. Relatively poor approaches to integration (especially planning acquisitions) leading to senior resignations. Culture of billing everything to clients, even admin and internal management. No timesheet options/codes other than absence/billable which is arguably unethical.