Good place to start, but not a place to growThe good thingsGood place to start your career, you get to handle different kinds: writing bids, doing surveys, making reports, presenting to clients. You learn a little bit of everything.
Flexitime is good for those who want to do masters, they will allow adjustments in schedule.
Support for trainings but most of these are employee-initiated. You also have to compete for resources/available training funds.
Decent work-life balance, overtimes are rare.
High ethical standards and global management puts effort in implementing risk management and due diligence standards.
The challengesDecent initial pay but it doesn't get better over the years, while your responsibilities double or triple. You learn a little bit of everything but that's it, you never develop any marketable skills. Management seems to think your developed skills are not really that useful too, because they don't give corresponding raises equivalent to effort, results or improvement. No corporate ladder, no minimum/expected qualifications to get a promotion and everything is just arbitrary (kung swertehin/ma-timingan ka lang). Always promised a raise that never comes. Young employees who are eager to prove themselves always get the short end of the stick. There's an employee development program where you set goals every year and is very good on paper but it's not really monitored or implemented.
After 1-2 years, salary is way behind industry standards. They put undue pressure to young professionals and high-performers (both technical and non-technical staff), and assign critical tasks to people even if the people don't have training or background on the work. They expect good results and quality output even when higher ups don't follow the quality standards and processes. Heard "pwede na yan" too many times coming from bosses.
No bonuses, and benefits are limited and not even equal to the other WSP office.
Management should pay attention to what kind of support employees need. These are all things that can be addressed if they just recognized the problem.