Career Prospects at AECOM

Seems very predictable for the early years (0-4) in terms of promotions/pay

Plenty of opportunities. Seems like AECOM has a clear career prospect guide.

It is encouraging to see lots of promotions from within. However it seems fairly rigid for early professionals in regards to promotion and raises.

Getting our architecture registration, proving to our leader that we are qualified and experienced enough

Working for an international company with different projects provides a wide range of opportunities and growth.

Company has clear progression steps. Mentor programme exist to help grads.

I think that promotion for the first couple of years is good and linear, i feel like it stagnates towards the 5-10yr mark and the pay increase associated with early promotions is not up to the market value.

Fixed promotion for graduates after 18months. No opportunities to accelerate. Post professional promotion opportunities are available in October and are usually advocated.

As a graduate there are limited opportunities for promotion but there will be in the coming years.

It is unfortunate, but in order to move up and get an appropriate raise you have to move to different companies as promotional opportunities and pay progression can be poor.

Company is fairly structured - no provision for early promotion out of graduate program but now they withold people from progressing. Very structured roles so they will promote based on time frames rather than demonstrating your capabilities.

Starting salary for an engineer isn't super competitive. Raise only just hit CPI.

I believe you move up through experience so I don't think it's easy

As yet, promotion opportunities are limited depending on the work afforded to your department and sub-discipline. Depending on what kind of work is available, you may find yourself taking on a completely different role to what you had applied for. Though, there will be support in this area to ensure that you are learning something useful from it.

I have not gotten a promotion yet but the career progression with this company is one of the main reasons why I wanted to work for this company

Promotion opportunities seem almost guaranteed but there is no way to differentiate what actually will help us move up the ranks in the company. Performance almost seems irrelevant to promotions at the early professional level.

I am privileged to be in a team that has a strong pipeline of big projects for the next ten years. Within my team are senior people who have specialized in different aspects of my field and have provided insight into the different progression paths available for me. AECOM emphasizes mentoring, and there is plenty of resources on career paths for people at all skill levels. Moving up the ranks takes a combination of collaborative goal-setting with your manager and working hard to achieve these goals to develop yourself and the business.

We have a paid two-year graduate engineer training program, and after two years, I can have a chance to be promoted.

Standard promotion process means people exceptionally good at their jobs might need to fit within standard systems

The high workload and subpar pay required to climb does not seem worth it. Company is more interested in extracting as much money from its workers as possible.