Disorganized, Poor Management, Poor Benefits, High Turnover - Engineer III CDM Smith Employee Review

- Company as a whole is disorganized from the file structure to unnecessary acronyms for everything to management. - Too many hoops to jump through. A lot of wasted unbillable time spent on multiple review processes each year and fixing your own IT issues since they refuse to keep a fully competent IT staff in the USA. - Terrible benefits. No paid maternity or paternity leave. No paid short or long term disability, discretionary 401k match is only once a year(can’t take advantage of compounding and if you leave between 1 year increments you don’t get any prorated amount) and the match is at most 3% and not uncommon to be lower, health insurance coverage is good but premiums are high and continue to rise each year. - High turnover. Every month it seems someone is leaving or being let go. Company focuses heavily on utilization and will let go of employees if their utilization falls below their expected rate. Company is technically private but seems to be ran as if it’s public. - They start your salary high to get you into the door but don’t expect more than a 3% raise each year and no bonus unless you’re in management. - Pushes using their India staff even on projects funded by US tax dollars.