Disappointing Workload Management and Compensation - Environmental Scientist Stantec Employee Review

1.0
23 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Worked with some genuinely good and knowledgeable people. - Gained valuable experience and exposure to a variety of projects.

Cons

- Team leads and management often showed favoritism, which negatively affected morale and opportunities within the team. - Workloads were frequently excessive, and repeated requests for assistance often went ignored until employees became burned out or started leaving. - Employee support and resource allocation felt reactive instead of proactive. - Compensation and salary increases were disappointing. Even after receiving positive feedback and praise for strong performance, obtaining something as small as a 2% raise felt unnecessarily difficult. - Overall, the work-life balance and recognition did not match the expectations associated with a company of Stantec’s size and reputation.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
15 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Hybrid Work and access to useful engineering tools

Cons

Projects are inconsistent in organization and structure (some good some bad). High (and strict) utilization requirements of >93% for entry level and mid level engineers results in overtime with overlapping work loads to avoid any downtime between projects. No development or mentorship strategy around work assignments, the main goal is to keep utilization up. Stantec has been very focused on cutting costs by offshoring, limiting conference attendance, reducing volunteer hours, no tuition reimbursement, multiple layers of approvals to attend in-office CPR training, etc. Very corporate environment and top heavy management with over 240+ “Vice Presidents” currently at the company. Difficult to get raises/promotions besides annual raise. Typical raise is ~3-5% with a good review depending on where your current salary is in relation to the pay range for your career level.

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