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The Cadmus Group, Inc.

I was hired as part time with the promise of full time and then when my review came there were no open positions. I found it odd since there were postings online still open for a full time position with benefits. My contract was extended and I worked another few months. The company paid very well, but management and the field technicians never saw eye to eye since one was always on the road and the other in the office. On several occasions I was given just days to prep for a business trip and had to front all of the money. I would get reimbursed a month later so all in all the it was a crapshoot but there was light at the end of it. They paid great and the environment in the office was very lax so I could work an earlier or later shift. Hearing from other employees who also had a similar experience, said the same thing happened to them. Unless you get hired full time right away, you have an expiration date. Perfect to learn and get some money out of school, but from 6 months on, you better start looking for a new job! The biggest flaw was we were told to work 9 hours and only paid for 8. This was explained to us as "paying it forward" for stocks and benefits once we got them and the down time we spend such as going to the bathroom each day. It never settled easy with me, but it is not my place anymore to say otherwise. On some level we all thought it was against some labor laws, especially for the hourly people (not salary), but no one ever spoke up that I know of. I am sure I'd get a great review from coworkers since I did a lot to help out and went on several business trips, even being double booked and having to reschedule. The Cadmus Group would have been a great place had I been hired full time, but the cards were just not in my favor from the first hand.

Cadmus is a good place to work with excellent benefits. Many changes have occurred through the years. Most of the collegial atmosphere Cadmus was so noted for has been lost through rapid growth and acquisition and this has created silos. Most employees no longer know staff in other departments or know what work they are performing. It has also caused some departments to have to compete for the same customer. This still needs to be worked out.

Some departments are well managed and that can make a big difference in the experience one will have when working for Cadmus. In some areas there is unnecessary and sometimes damaging gossip at the senior level that has not been properly addressed.

Several formats of reporting structure and employee goals and measurement have been tried, but none have been totally successful. Similar to other growing companies, some mid to senior level management have been promoted on their performance, which is a good thing, but put in charge of managing staff even when they do not have the neccessary skills.

Overall it is a good company to work for and particularly for new graduates.

A typical day at Cadmus revolves around tracking billable hours and juggling too many competing deadlines with limited support. I learned how to stay organized under pressure and manage complex projects independently, but most growth came from figuring things out on my own. Management rarely provides mentorship or guidance and tends to focus only on billability and optics. The culture feels outdated and resistant to new ideas or tools, and almost everything still runs through Excel instead of proper project-management software. The hardest part of the job is keeping up with unrealistic expectations while trying to maintain quality work. The most enjoyable part is collaborating with smart, driven coworkers who genuinely care about the work, even when leadership doesn’t make it easy to succeed.

Management seems to understand the employees' complaints but chooses against taking action to remedy them. Pay not commensurate with work or experience, not adjusted to reflect additional responsibilities. Consultants have high billability targets and the answer to overload is to work more. Health care is expensive and satisfactory but not great. Some benefits are so specific as to be cumbersome or unusable.
Outright micro-aggression with zero accountability. Acquires new businesses rather than developing staff capacity.
Palpable feel of "you have to play the game."

The HS sector was formerly known as Obsidian Analysis and was purchased by Cadmus. There was some integration, but much of the culture and infrastructure in the HS sector remained closer to the legacy company. It's very much an Old Boys club, with only a few women and outsiders permeating the top levels of management. The younger/analyst crowd is very cliquey and promotions are highly subjective/political and based on who your managers are, how much influence they have, and how attentive/good they are as a manager. I disliked much of my time working here and left at the first opportunity. It highlighted much of what I realized I disliked about management and things to look for in future companies that I preferred.

Management did not make tasks clear. Micromanagement is a standard. Often, work is given to people who are unfamiliar with the subject matter. There is very little support or direction. As a result the work load becomes stressful and hard to manage even for the most organized. At one point, an upper manager joked that they would provide free Adderall, a stimulant, to their subordinates. There are not enough employees to manage the work-mill business model. There is a lot of turnover. It is hard to complete quality work in this atmosphere. The management is disorganized and deadlines pile up quickly.

There are honestly good days and bad days at this company. On a good day, you are able to keep work within your regularly prescribed 40 (42-44?) hour week schedule. On a good day managers don't message you none stop with non-work related things and expect a response. But on a bad day, between useless meetings and an expectation of overtime (despite being salaried employees), it can feel like it's not worth it.  

I know we are in environmental consulting and the work is meaningful and important, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't pay us what we're worth.

I worked at Cadmus for 3+ years, starting at entry level and advancing from there. As part of the Water team, I was exposed to diverse projects with tasks ranging from communications to data analysis to writing. I had very supportive supervisors, and I developed broad understanding of environmental policy-making and the science behind it.

I wish there had been more focus on workforce improvement rather than billable hours. Cadmus tends to go the easy route to accomplish things, which makes clients happy in the short term, but makes everything more difficult for everybody in the long run. They've been slowly sliding away from their stated mission for some time now.

Really enjoyed company culture and the work-from-home opportunities. Contract work was sometimes interesting and you have flexibility to choose projects sometimes. 

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