Arcadis reviews

ABSOLUTELY AWFUL! After going through a very vigorous recruitment process, I was delighted to have been offered a place for the Graduate Environmental Consultant Programme in Manchester. I was given a verbal offer stating my starting salary would be £25k with NO follow up email. After waiting three weeks and receiving the follow up documents including my contract, only after I prompted them, I was horrified to find out my starting salary was stated as £20k! To say that I was upset is an understatement. I had been looking forward so much to starting a career with Arcadis. It had been my ambition since completing my masters to be an environmental consultant and it is what I had worked so hard for! Fortunately, I had not resigned from my present job at the time (which I was just about to do that week!) My present salary was 25000 with the promise of a far higher salary one year later. I was also short listed (five of us) for a graduate scheme with United Utilities' and the starting salary was 27000. I find it absolutely shocking that Arcadis can call themselves a socially responsible company and only offer their talented and hard working graduates £20k a year! Most admin jobs pay more than that! Not to mention, the way the HR department handled the situation. I would ADVISE AGAINST any graduate from applying to this company because you will be played a fool before you even start! (salary advertised as "competitive" during the recruitment process!). Quite frankly, it is an insult and us graduates deserve better!

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.