I am not being forced to write this. - Engineer Pape-Dawson Employee Review

5.0
13 Sept 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

TLDR: PD is the best if you want to be a great engineer AND a great person. I joined Pape-Dawson because every single person I met in the interview process was a person I wanted to see myself strive to grown in to. Although people reading this will have heard this cliche phrase hundreds of times on the job hunt, the people at PD are truly what make it. The environment in the office is very young and very collaborative within the teams. There is a U30 program for the large group of engineers under 30 which involves a speaking series, socials, outreach, and cool project visits as well as some awesome community service opportunities like Mentoring kids at an elementary school, volunteering at the SA Food bank, or running 10Ks for causes. We have great leadership in our Project Engineers and Managers who guide the teams and have been at the company for years, but never settle and are continuously refining their own technical and leadership skills and styles. The is rarely every a dull moment in the office!

Cons

Not a con, but a heads up that it is fast paced and occasionally you will work long hours. It is a design firm though and if any design firm tells you that its not hard and you don't have to work long hours, they're lying or don't have very many jobs,

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Thank you for sharing your experience at Pape-Dawson! Our mission statement is "to be the most respected engineering firm in our geographic and technical areas of practice." Thank you for helping us achieve this.

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