Beautiful on paper - Toxic and pointless in reality - Human Resources Aecon Employee Review

1.0
Jan 6, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good company on your resume

Cons

Worst culture ever, lots of fighting and cut throat within the HR team. Look at the the "diversity" and you'll notice a weird pattern. They try to advertise diversity but they miss the point in terms of profiles... They'll include a black/asian person here and there in their teams and pictures but in reality these people are simply corporate tools. To progress you either have to be part of diversity, good looking or friend of management. When assigned to a project, it gets very political.. They forget about you and and you rather not say anything otherwise you're automatically lablled as problematic. Avoid this company.. Ellison, Ledcor, PCL, Bird, Pomerleau .. They all have a better culture.

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5.0
Apr 5, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Nice welcoming and creative environment

Cons

Very demanding job and long hours

1.0
Oct 17, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

decent pay, SEEMS like an evolved pleasent company, SEEMS like. they pay to fly you to holiday parties, that kind of old fashioned "were a family" kind of vibe.

Cons

got laid off, went in one day and BOOM, your gone. "were going in a new direction" and no other communications. thats it. if they can do it to me, an exempt guy, they can do it to anyone. I suspect that is the true nature of AECON. Nice maple syrup canadian veneer, but just another pipe-hittin construction company just like a lot of others.

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