Circus - Senior Scientist Stantec Employee Review

2.0
3 Mar 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company is very diverse, so in the environmental/regulatory field there are a lot of opportunities to develop internal clients or clients from cross selling. I worked on a wide range of interesting projects.

Cons

The balanced leadership model and flat management structure (inexperienced junior mangers supervising large numbers of professionals) creates some gaps which result in an environment where office politics and blame/finger pointing thrive and collaboration is absent. Managers (project and operational) are overvalued whereas technical expertise is undervalued. This results in brain drain, low morale/engagement of technical staff, and poor quality work.

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Cons

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Pros

Hybrid Work and access to useful engineering tools

Cons

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