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.

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 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

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.

Loyalty at AECOM is rewarded. It is a big company, so it is a long game. There is a big turn over rate beyond the grad years.

There is a process involved with two years at grad-level followed by a ranking based approach for future promotions.

After the graduate program, you are automatically promoted to professional engineer. Depending on performance and amount of experience, professionals will be promoted to senior and then principal engineer. For higher levels, there are different career pathways including technical, client and management focused roles.

not sure. like with all companies, politics, meritocracy and business metrics all are factors at play.

Hard to say due to being locked in the grad program which rules out promotions for the 1.5 years the program takes. Otherwise, it seems regular promotions and rewards being offered to colleagues professional level and above.

Limited promotions and progression stalled