Arcadis reviews

Poor experience with company buyouts - ARCADIS buys smaller firms and makes drastic changes the work culture, resulting in the mass exodus of talent. Staff are treated as if this is the car sales industry - Being a publicly traded corporation, the firm constantly reduces overhead costs which means staff layoffs are a constant occurrence. Staff members are layed off the moment they are nonbillable.

- NOT ALL WORK GROUPS ARE CREATED EQUAL; Some work groups are supportive and realize that professional development, recognition, and collaboration are important. These groups may have pizza parties and cake for employees celebrating a milestone with the company. Other groups do not exhibit such proven leadership nor recognize the importance of employee morale with respect to employee retention. Management needs to realize that there is a reason why certain work groups have higher turnover rates than others. Until management does something to change this lack of leadership will continue to breed discontent and loss of talented employees. - Salaries are VERY dependent on work group, operating manager, and office location. Even within a single office, an engineer with 3-5yrs experience can earn a base salary <$1k higher than an entry-level engineer with 0yrs experience. - The company seems to acquire or merge with another company every year in order to show clients that it is "growing" and "responding" to the global market. Well, that's great except that these mergers continue to provide greater salary discrepancies among employees in the same grade and experience level and the shrinking IT department cannot keep up with merging all of the communications systems.