Arcadis reviews

3.9

75% would recommend to a friend

(4,535 total reviews)
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Heather Polinsky

61% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Arcadis has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 4,535 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Arcadis employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Jul 26, 2016

I was a number at ARCADIS.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good benefits and technical capabilities. Fellow employees were friendly and for the most part knowledgeable. Pay is on scale for the industry and you can work remotely from home.

Cons

Entering the ARCADIS office was literally like being in an episode of "The Walking Dead". This may not apply to all offices at ARCADIS. No room for advancement and advancement is not based on merit but rather if you work in specific cliques. Toxic supervisors are kept because of longevity and familiarity with operational requirements even though their poor reputation is well known throughout the office. Company has no interest in mentoring employees to grow the business organically. I asked the current CEO about creating a mentoring program to contribute to organically growing the business by teaching mid level staff the art of pursuing clients. This would allow push down of client development activities to lower paid staff to reduce client pursuit cost and allow ARCADIS to throw a larger "net" to chase opportunities. I received a robotic answer "Billability is important." End of conversation. The CEO should not tour offices to get a feel for employee morale then do absolutely nothing to improve it.

1.0
Jul 11, 2015

ANOTHER round of layoffs!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pay and benefits tend to be good....but there appears to be a new trend of laying off experienced folks that make more money and hiring college grads to shift labor costs downward.

Cons

OMG. I used to be that they would reorganize every year. Now it's every six months....literally. Recent reorg reverts the environmental division back to what it was 3 years ago. Many of the recently promoted ops team members that were interviewed and promoted 7 months ago for the "new" organization were laid off as sacrificial lambs laid on the altar for the latest reorganization.

3.0
Apr 20, 2016
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Pros

This is a tough review for me to write because I worked in two different Arcadis offices and had wildly different experiences in each. I was hired into a great office on the west coast , great people, great project, great potential for advancement. Advice to anyone interviewing or applying would be to really pay attention to the local office culture. These reviews don't differentiate office to office or region to region very well. There are pockets of really great stuff in Arcadis and pockets of really bad stuff. If you are lucky enough to get hired into an office that cares about your career and you as a person then you will do great. I gave 3 stars here because I see a lot of potential with Arcadis and had this review only bee about my former office it would have been 5 stars.

Cons

The second office I transferred to was on the east coast and had a wildly different culture than I was used to, hence causing me to leave. People were sneaky, antisocial, and for the most part did not care about your career at all, even your own managers. In fact, I would often see tattletaling and throwing of coworkers under the bus to get ahead. I didn't see anyone get promoted and heard stories of some people being at the same level for many years. I don't like saying anything negative about Arcadis overall since I believe (or hope) this is an isolated case, but looking at some of the other reviews it most likely isn't. So, make sure you really get a good feel for the office before committing to Arcadis.

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