Vantaggi
There are actually some very talented professionals scattered around the company if you can find them. There are a lot of technical networks and now the resume system is automated, so they are making headway with uncovering these assets. The benefits package is good.
Svantaggi
Senior management recently described the company as a bloated organization, and they couldn't be more right. The problem is that the bloating is at the top. As a professional engineer, I find it appalling at how many accountants there are to tell me how to do my job. Even more amazing is how little these people understand the engineering business. They fail to realize that talented technical people do not just grow on trees and that this is a cyclical business in a bad economy. The profit expectations of corporate management are totally unrealistic. It has become apparent that AECOM is not really interested in being in the Architecture and Engineering business at all. They continue to set revenue and profit goals that are impossible to obtain and then do more layoffs when these goals are not met. Support services are generally terrible, so you have to do your job without IT, marketing, or HR support, but you must maintain high margin to pay corporate allocation and utilization goals are just plain silly. The long term, strategic mistakes that have been made in the pursuit of short term profits and revenue predictability are staggering. Talented engineers have no place in this firm, it is an MBA-only club. Who knows how they plan to make money once they've finished laying off the rest of the production staff.