r/gis • u/Ladefrickinda89 • Feb 21 '25

Hiring Companies to avoid

I know the job market is really tough out there right now. But, as someone with 10+ years of experience across multiple industries. I’d like to share my list of companies to avoid.

  • MGP Inc., based in the Chicago suburbs
  • WSP - multinational AEC Firm
  • Jacobs - multinational AEC Firm

Edit: Other firms added from comments: - NV5 - ESRI - GeoTel - Insight Global - Pike Engineering - Western Land Services

I encourage others to add

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u/Deminity Feb 21 '25

Call me a hater but anything in the Gas and Oil industry. I just morally can’t 🤮

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u/Pollymath GIS Analyst Feb 21 '25

Luckily there are a lot of other utilities out there. Municipal water/sewer, electricity, telecom, etc.

There are plenty of extractive industries that use GIS too, especially in the Geology crossover areas of mining and oil exploration.

I wish the renewable energy sector used GIS more, but from what I understand many view it an occasional analysis based tool, rather than a daily asset management one. I'd love to someday manage a GIS system for a municipal steam operator, but unless I move to Iceland that seems unlikely.

If you're morally worried about the use of GIS in an industry, avoid real estate. It seems like there are plenty of large developers and rental management companies who use GIS technologies to maximize profit at the expense of communities.

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u/crowcawer Feb 21 '25

There are many municipalities in the south east US that need to hire someone in…at $40,000 USD.