Vantaggi
Pay was above regional average.
Svantaggi
The Dilbert effect is in full swing at Dewberry. Project managers are pulled from a huge pool of people fired from other companies. Posturing and verbosity is apparently an acceptable alternative for actual and effective leadership. I was attacked, and insulted through “performance criticism” because I refused to participate in covering up unethical behavior, nor would I allow these people to disrespect me when I refused. They said I was being “uncooperative,” and that the “job description requires me to do what they project manager tells me to do.” Office culture is very provincial and racially insensitive; junior engineers who are women and people of color are often attacked as being “a liability due to their defensiveness and combativeness” with their oftentimes white male counterparts. This is an excuse for allowing discrimination in the workplace. Inappropriate relationships between lower level workers and project managers. The day I handed in my resignation, they tried to tell me that I was “terminated,” but I already notified Human Resources of my resignation. I laughed on my way out of the office. PATHETIC! I would have sued for my troubles had I not already accepted an offer at another firm.