Good Atmosphere, Bad Agenda - Interior Design Coordinator Stantec Employee Review

4.0
23 Apr 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great working environment. The people, the offices, the culture all make the day fly. Countless opportunities for social events. Well connected network.

Cons

Companywide ethics are superficial. They focus on sustainability, great, but this is a BlackRock owned company with the goal of Monopolizing the A&E industry. A majority of the companies revenue comes from Military, Medical, and Tech industrial complexes with alternative ethical agendas. The intellectually gifted employees either quit, or burry themselves in their work to not acknowledge this fact. No clear path to promotion unless you have connections. Promotion upon License completion is not guaranteed within that calendar year. Very poor pay and benefits. Very little opportunity to work on flagship projects. Most of the work completed will be existing renovations, or new build industrial design. This means you will be drafting warehouses and picking up redlines for PMs. At a high level employees are evaluated on a "utilization rate" scale that determines your value. This can be non- reflective of the employees work performance.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
15 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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