Stantec reviews

Bureaucracy rules, productivity drools. While I ran into the occasional manager who looked out for their people, maybe 10% of their "leadership" is comprised of actual leaders. Despite multiple employee surveys that showed low morale and an office on the downslide, management simply refused to listen to the suggestions offered by employees. Not interested in exploring or leveraging the latest technology. An obscene amount of money and effort go into marketing "values" and "workplace culture" - to the employees. Snazzy office spaces do not make up for not getting your employees the basic things they need, like safety training, decent equipment, and a way to navigate the incredibly restrictive bureaucrats. When you force employees to put thousands of dollars on their credit card for remote trips (no such thing as company cards here) and then delay payment, don't be surprised when they get upset...

Company constantly acquiring new smaller firms instead of trying to grow internally. A result of acquisitions is a constant influx of smaller company top brass becoming senior members of Stantec and reducing opportunities of current employees to climb corporate ladder. Firm is more concerned with stock price than the it's employees even though the corporate motto is "employees first" . Raises, bonuses, promotions are based on each business centers profitability not the company as a whole, and/or one's hard work, even through all the senior management aren't held to same billable standards as the junior folks who work their tails off to balance the books. There is a lot of lip service to managing ones career but there is not much help and/or guidance provided by the company. A lot of money is spent on PR to give the illusion of the company caring about their employees but the reality is quite the opposite, at least in the business center I was part of. And that may very well be the case as depending on whom who talk to, business centers (divisions) seem to operate differently depending on who the BC lead is and what their beliefs (not the companies) are and how much of an annual bonus they stand to make by keeping costs down and profits up.