AECOM IDEV needs new management, high tolerance for unethical behavior - Anonymous employee AECOM Employee Review

1.0
25 May 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The people who work here really are trying, they just are set up to fail.

Cons

Working with senior management here is like pulling teeth, and really, really bad teeth at that (maybe because none of them actually want to be managers)? I was consistently impressed by the avoidance tactics and passive aggressive approach to conflict. That style resulted in inaction and general laziness towards their staff, manifested in a complete lack of onboardings, trainings, recognition, career paths, and trust. When you need them, senior managers are nowhere to be found. They rarely respond to important phone calls or emails, but somehow manage to show up only with blame only when a project isn't meeting the burn rate. What little team spirit there is exists only for bottom of the ladder employees banding together out of necessity due to the ineptitude of leadership. And on top of that (!) senior leadership has a bad track record of continuing to recycle gross COPs and senior managers with a reputation for unethical/hostile/ or sexual harassment behavior. After years of rejected complaints, they finally opened up an investigation into the multiple claims, but the lawyer who was heading it up was so incompetent he would forget to show up to the interviews. That lawyer, by the way, also told me once not to be the "star program" and follow the law in country because other AECOM projects weren't and would be affected. Cool. I really tried to like AECOM. Now that I'm gone, however, I realize just how wasted an effort that was.

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