Arcadis reviews

US company is based on acquisitions of similar companies resulting in a culture that is not unified and can widely differ from one office to another. Whereas benefits have become more competitive in the last few years, the business systems are still lagging firms of similar size. The upgrade to a new project management program helps, but business management of the company still depends on manual spreadsheets. Turnover is relatively high and lay-offs occur often enough to result in staff protecting their job rather than fully engaging in team efforts. Financial and quarterly results impact management decisions, making the job a daily grind of achieving aggressive billable and profit goals. Managers have little time to cultivate staff or focus on their own development -- both are viewed as an employee responsibility. Corporate support is minimal with high turn-over of primarily non-professional level staff.

It's not a friendly office environment. People are very competitive or completely checked out. The main problem is the way they setup 'supervisors.' Most junior staff do very little to no direct work for their supervisor. It's a once a year meeting kind of thing, with supervisors taking no interest and never 'going to bat' for people getting raises/advancements. Also yes, as others have noted, the management changes frequently in this office, I don't know what it means, but it's not good. Your billability goal will be much higher than similar companies. You are pretty much expected to work overtime to meet these goals.