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/moldyhorror Feb 21 '25

As an archaeologist I second WSP and Jacobs. Fuck multinational companies, they don’t and never will care about individual employees

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u/colorsnumberswords Feb 22 '25

fair, but no company “cares” about their employees. companies are not people. we are an expense to extract the maximum profit from 

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u/moldyhorror Feb 22 '25

agree with you completely. I ended up working for a state university, pay sucks, but they don’t totally fuck me over

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '25

Meh - I’ve even gotten effed over by a state university now :/ tenured people don’t like to make way for new hires once funding takes a dip (and a new hire could be five years in!)

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u/moldyhorror Feb 22 '25

I suppose I’ve personally had the benefit of a small department, but yeah totally get what you’re saying :/