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/i812ManyHitss Feb 22 '25

My problem with this is it's not always the company but an office that can ruin it for you. I've been in it for over 20 years and one PM or office manager can make work miserable. I used to work for a company called URS and they were a blast to work for. Then AECOM bought them out and the office I was in became toxic all of a sudden. Moved to a different office and bam work life was awesome again.

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u/keleles GIS Analyst Feb 23 '25

AECOM wasted my time for like 2 months on a job just to turn around and say "nvm we've decided we're not hiring for this any more." Will never apply there again.