design engineer

technicien en génie civil

senior engineer

project engineer

transport planner

WATT Consulting Group

In the time worked here it started out fantastic. Great respect for employees and family environment. The new management especially in the geomatics division has changed that to treat employees based on thire profit margin. No matter how long you have worked for the company or how much extra time you have given the company the new management will not give anything back to you. Employees are promised rewards and bonuses for completely extra tasks such as taking courses on personal time and extra safety insentives but never paid out. If the company gets slow entire positions are cut and never filled again making all other employees handle the extra work just because its best for the company. Employees are treated as a number. The geomatics management has killed the moral of a company that used to have snack day, free breakfast for monthly meetings, bbqs, fun team building events. Turned this fun work culture into assembly line, don't ask for anything in return culture. 

On a typical day, you'll be bringing work home to meet tight deadlines with insufficient budget.  Because they tend to underestimate the level of work involved in a project, Project Managers will ask you to charge some time to overhead, which will negatively impact your performance review.  Workplace culture is very competitive, if you ask for 5 minutes of help from a colleague they will ask to charge to your project.  Very challenging, little reward, overall not a good place to work.

What is the best part of working at the company?
New new people and learning new techniques of doing the job.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Very hard handling Some people but few.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Most people are friendly and like helping each other to get the job done.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
When you are asked for overtime during winter if you’re one of the field crews.

WATT Consulting Group allows for flexible start times and split days as needed. They are very understanding of childcare responsibilities and don't mind being flexible as long as you make your hours. The company has excellent management that is approachable and fair. Benefits are pretty good and compensation is an open topic. Work from home options are available and you can decide how to split your time between home and the office as you like (even 100% from home if need be).

Expect to bring work home on a regular basis to meet unrealistic deadlines with insufficient budget. The projects are challenging and fun to work on but the engineering manager has unrealistic expectations and treats employees like it was the 80's (disrespectful and unprofessional). If you ask for 5-10 minutes of help from a colleague they will ask to charge to your project affecting the jobs budget. When this happens, beware of the manager.

The Engineering Dept. *(as all the other departments) have strong coordination and good work ethics between all the departments.
The people in Management are good in teaching the younger people in a sense nurturing maturity in their teams... 
The work deadlines were harsh - however everyone works together to meet these... 
The office was a good environment.

I have enjoyed working at WATT for the last 10 years. Management seems to really care about the staff and the mentorship I received has been great. The company has competitive salaries and benefits. They are also quite flexible with work from home opportunities and the company is generous with vacation time. I haven’t bought shares of the company yet but I will as it seems like a great investment. 

I don't know what it's like now, but when I was there, the previous management, which was good, changed and new management came in, that was bad, and was not interested in people at all.  Terrible people skills.  Really abrasive.  Needlessly unfriendly.  Cared about delivering a quality product which is good, but alienated a lot of people in the process.  Hopefully it's better now.

Watt's BC presence builds off of Boulevard group's original start. The office vibe in Victoria, Kelowna and Vancouver is fresh and you get to work on a lot of really cool projects. They have regional leads that focus on transit and active transportation which translates into some unique work on top of the bread and butter transportation studies that always come in. A good place to work and develop your career.

I am having the best experience working at WATT.

Management is fairly new as they promote within...but they are figuring it out.  The fact they promote from within is a great thing.

I love the family feeling, being an employee-owned company, they seem to care more than the average employer.

Managers are supportive and hear you.

The new Human Resources is terrific and seems to be filling in the gaps.



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Design engineer 4 salaries reported	$85,441 per year
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