Good pay and benefits, but contract-dependent experience - GIS Analyst TRC Companies Employee Review

Collaborative team environment, strong emphasis on safety, opportunities for professional growth, and involvement in impactful projects. The company also provides a structured onboarding experience and a professional work culture.

The main challenge is the time it takes to become fully familiar with internal processes, tools, and project workflows during the first few weeks.

* Very flexible hours and locations. *Some decent people, although most seemed miserable and frustrated. *Work balance was decent enough. *Leaving before WSP buyout was a pro.

Company ruined by private equity greed and biased, inexperienced, toxic managers who played favorites and had poor communication skills. Detachment from execs and managers with lack of care for employees. There was no culture, no morale, and turnover was high. Lots of siloing, lack of teamwork, and estrangement between colleagues. Merit or past work experience not considered for many roles here, be careful, they will not be forthcoming about tasks and there is job title/description 'fluff' when hiring. Many people get pigeonholed for years here who have greater potential. You're just a number and there is not much career growth, nor support or praise from direct managers for high performers. *Favoritism from certain managers, creating estrangement among employees and a toxic workplace that fostered internal competition, rather than teamwork. *Gender preference towards women, more than men, for hiring and promoting into leadership roles. *A lot of female managers favored other fellow female employees. *Men, and especially those on predominately female teams, seemed marginalized, ignored, not praised for their work. One’s merit and prior experience not considered, more about gender quotas and internal politics. Biased undertones from female managers towards men, based on actions rather than words. *Managers praised favorites more, creating insecurity and toxicity between employees. *Detached managers enabled poor behavior from favorites, where they’d try to manage others, nitpick, and act condescending and patronizing. *Lack of empathy and self-awareness from people in general. Managers generally not interested in getting to know people. *People thrown onto teams without introductions nor getting to know each other as people. A high amount of departmental siloing and not much attempt for pleasantries. *No transparency: managers not forthcoming about the health and future of projects. **Managers did not receive performance reviews from their direct reports during my entire time there. Manager reviews do not seem to be a normal thing at TRC. *Team players and high performers with work ethic, regardless of gender, were often exploited, pigeonholed, and not supported with career growth opportunities. Reliable workers simply given more work and ignored. *Inexperienced, younger staff good at Excel were quickly promoted into leader roles for teams of people in their 30’s-40’s. Communication and leading skills were not good, morale suffered, and experienced employees quit. *Mass-hiring externally and undertones of wanting more young, cheaper people to be thrown into ‘project manager’ or ‘lead’ roles to generate higher profit margins caused many experienced employees to quit. Dead end for career growth for those in their 30’s-40’s. *Employees were treated like machines by clients and not appreciated. *Clients' own skewed DEI policies often bled into TRC's hiring decisions for staffing projects. Questionable policies. *Unrealistically high billable goals set by accounting teams. High goals used as pressure against teams during downtime to conduct layoffs without hesitation. No job stability. *Benefits and employee well-being were lacking. Maternity leave was notoriously not competitive. PTO days, including sick: 15 per year. People chose to work unpaid days often to have balance between sick or vacation time. *TRC used PTO time against employees’ yearly billable goals, which seemed foolish.