WSP reviews

Cost of benefits is exorbitant. The employer to employee ration is approximately 55 to 45 (although they will BS you into thinking its 60 to 40). 401k match is a joke. Zero flexibility-working from home is frowned upon on the rare occasion it is allowed. Compassion never enters the building...9/11, Blackout, Hurricane Sandy-use your own PTO despite the fact that there was no way employees could travel to work. While the engineers who are the bread and butter of the organization can be condescending, obtuse and mean they are outdone by the senior managers in Corporate. Diversity is a joke joke joke. Age discrimination is rampant. Sexism just par for the course. The toxicity of the New York office is epic. As a hiring manager, I can not begin to express the ineptitude of the recruitment department. I have been in this organization 10+years, there has not been a decent recruitment team in place in about 5-6 years. Is finding talent to find your talent really that difficult? Technology is woefully behind the times. And instead of addressing this, they decide to outsource the broken systems antiquated systems to save labor costs. PB was its own sad little place, but since the WSP takeover PB now looks like it was Disneyland. We had no idea things could possibly get worse. WSP walked in and said hold my beer, we can show you true miserly misery. It is definitely time to end this chapter

High stress environment, big segregation (analysis - lateral members, design - gravity members, management, concrete, steel), no opportunity to become well-rounded engineer, analysis is mostly limited to input into Etabs software, design is mostly limited to column rundown, slab and footing design. When negotiating your salary take into account that the work you will be required to finish will take much more time than 40 hours per week. End year bonuses were a big disappointment. Four of the Senior Vice Presidents left the company in 2014. Resent promotions of people without PE license and little knowledge about design proved that there are no rules in regards to promotions. Company would hire new people into higher management positions; however they are not offering their loyal long-term employees opportunity to grow professionally. Company prefers to hire engineers with any kind of experience and gives only from time to time opportunity to graduates. Do not show you are capable to design quickly and efficiently, you will get stuck in the Design Engineer position and your peers that cannot design will become more appreciated Project Managers. You are going to get easier promoted if you show to the upper management that you can be pushy. Amount of work completed by you does not matter, what matters is that you make other people work really hard and make them work longer hours. Crazy deadlines: you are working on your project deadline or you are helping somebody else with a deadline. Drafting department is understaffed.