Arcadis reviews

Arcadis will intentionally lowball salary, aiming to offer the lowest salary you will consider and don't give into a signing bonus, that isn't annual salary. Once you start at Arcadis you will be forced to aim to hit a very high billability utilization and opportunities to work on interesting work must be taken on in addition to your standard role. The fully remote work can seem attractive but there is a culture of always being online so instead of the time used commuting pre-covid it will be spent online late into the evening. PTO also isn't great and you start at 0 days and build from that.

Arcadis is acutely aware that they pay 20-30% below industry standard and seems to have no intention of reconciling. In two years I've known one person who has had a promotion. They'll bring an outside hire into an advanced position that they have no direct experience with but refuse to promote folks already doing that work. It seems like at the executive level, the company tries to be socially responsible by placing women and POC in leadership positions, but that isn't reflected at all in middle and lower management. Organizational structure is confusing and a lot of folks have given up on trying to understand it.