Country unit head - Unit Head, India CDM Smith Employee Review

4.0
14 July 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good work environment, good team, job stability, freedom of operations and some very good managers at the senior management

Cons

Mediocre salaries, too many changes whenever a senior management person leaves, business units operate like independent units without any coherent utilisation of other unit's strengths, country specific decisions taken by managers sitting in the US without consulting local units, nepotism and inability to leverage available talents for the benefit of the company

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5.0
22 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of training and opportunities

Cons

Company structure can be confusing

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2.0
18 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexible hybrid schedule is very nice and starting salary is high for early career engineers.

Cons

The main people running the company are not engineers and you can tell. They are all focused on utilization with rates often set at 97% or higher. This had led to my supervisor asking/telling me to not charge company required trainings. As an early engineer it really feels like they don't want to invest in me and only care about their bottom line. If you are an early career structural engineer you will also not get any meaningful work until you've been with the company for at least 5 years. The senior engineers do not trust you and will only give you grunt work.

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