WSP reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(7,135 total reviews)
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Alexandre L’Heureux

79% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

WSP has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 7,135 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The WSP employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Servicios de construcción, reparación y mantenimiento industry (3.7 stars).

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7K reviews
1.0
May 19, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

-Salary (WSP is working quickly to fix this "Pro") -Alternate Work Schedule (which they're removing effective June 1.) -BYO Mobile Plan (for now)

Cons

-WSP has single-handedly ruined Parsons Brinckerhoff. They laid off 80+ salaried full-time employees. Moved positions to other offices without telling the business or anyone at Parsons Brinckerhoff. Have hired seasonal interns to do the work of said salaried full-time employees. Talk about a compliance nightmare. -During those layoffs, affected employees had to take PTO to interview to find another job. Are you kidding me?! -Those unaffected have been bailing left and right. HR function is a shadow of its former self. -Micromanagement of individual contributors. -Constant revolving door of line level managers. -Petty corporate politics. -Cutbacks and layoffs all to save a buck. Which they will then turn around and spend on acquiring yet another company. -Zero communication. -Small low cublicles with zero privacy. Teams expected to duke it out over small huddle romos to make calls that are sensitive in nature. My advice to you, keep looking. This is not a good place to further your career.

2.0
Jul 15, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company pays you well and is great about keeping technology up to date.

Cons

The office I worked at was very clickish and was apparently unable to integrate me who is a senior scientist into their projects. There are a number of very bad project managers but they've been there forever so everybody thinks they are fantastic because the clients love them and they can bill them forever. More importantly, the projects they work on are just kind of money pits where there is not any real goal to complete them. Mostly government projects but even big industry. The office is completely disconnected from the state of Maine unlike most consulting firms there. I found an arrogance that was not supported by the quality of work in many ways. I'm sure they would have their criticism on me but I have worked in Maine for 37 years in consulting and was appalled by my experience.

1.0
Jul 2, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Opportunity to work on big pursuits.

Cons

WSP is the most unethical, inappropriate, unprofessional, and toxic firm I have ever worked for. They bullied, retaliated, changed policies/standards/procedures only to me (even company-wide policies), violated their own Inclusion and Diversity policies, and purposely put unrealistic expectations only on me to make me fail for 4 months worth of pursuits (such a toll on my mental health). This all started when I made a formal HR complaint on a Marketing Manager for not to replying any of my emails for 5 months - yes, 5 months. This Marketing Manager had a history of being offensive to other marketers and technical teams. I escalated this behavior to my Marketing Manger and the CA District Manager and was told to work around her or do her work for her. Since this behavior went unaddressed for 5 months, I made a formal complaint with human resources, and the entire marketing management team retaliated against me for the following 4 months (9 months total this toll on my mental health). To remedy the situation, management told me I shouldn't have gone to HR and not answering emails for 5 months was appropriate, professional, and reasonable behavior for a work environment. They formulated an "Action Plan" for me and told me I was the problem. From that point on, they bullied me and sabotaged my pursuits. I was told by my Marketing Manager and the CA District Manager that they would not help me (literally, they said they would not help me in any way with my work), because I should know what their concerns were and how to fix them. When I took time off, they would not fill in or assist pursuit teams in my absence to make my job incredibly hard. I worked 30 hours in 2 days and ended up in the emergency room. They didn't even assist pursuit teams for that so I had to continue to work long hours when I returned. They isolated me from the rest of the team, added their own HR rep to every phone call, intimidated me into submission, wouldn't let me talk and constantly interrupted me so I could only answer with one word responses, told me I wasn't allowed to tell my pursuit/technical teams their decisions even though I wholeheartedly disagreed with them (e.g., limit the number of pages on a proposal even though the proposal allowed us more pages), withheld support/direction/guidance only to me to ensure I fell short, went out of their way to make my entire work environment unhealthy (e.g., threatened me that they didn't have to give me any support or resources if I didn't do what I was told), and humiliated me in front of pursuit teams and my peers. They made only me give them 3 days notice if there were any changes to my schedule (which sometimes included me taking a lunch - not to mention I'm salary), made only me go into the office every week, made only me travel to SoCal from a different state (there and back) within 24 hours even though all other out of state employees were allowed 36 hours, revoked my "privilege" to a "4-9-4" work week, and required me to work 50-60 hours every week even though that was never the norm before I made the HR complaint. They violated their entire Inclusion & Diversity policies. Management put more time into plotting against me than providing a safe, healthy, and supportive work environment. Overall, I know I didn't do anything wrong. They were hostile towards me because I didn't follow their agenda which was a reflection of their management and that's something I can't fix.

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