SYSTRA reviews

3.9

80% would recommend to a friend

(458 total reviews)
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Pierre Verzat

91% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

SYSTRA has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 458 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SYSTRA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transport de biens et de personnes industry (3.5 stars).

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458 reviews
4.0
Feb 11, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

SYSTRA is a world leading company in transport planning and engineering. This french company, owned by the RATP (paris transports company) and SNCF (french railways) is present in most of the countries in the world. You can start you carrier here after your degree, as an engineer in a diversity of jobs: transport planning, structures engineer, railway, catenary... Then, 4 or 5 years after your arrival, you can evolve to a project manager or an expert. Long projects usually take 2 or 3 years, people is normaly working on the building site if they are surveying the construction, or at SYSTRA offices somewhere in the world to make the construction project. SYSTRA and his subsidiaries (SYSTRA Consulting and MVA) have offices all around the world, mostly in Asia and north Africa, the engineers are usually local. I think is a great place to start a career and to learn a lot.

Cons

This is a company of transports engineering, so if you are looking for this, this is really the good place. However, you evolution will not be very fast (this is a big company, 3 000 people, so evolution is slow although you emigrate to one of the local offices). Management is done mostly by engineers who are in the company since a long time, so it's not always great.

1.0
Jul 24, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Hardly any, Only if one can bargain the salary well.

Cons

Very bad working hours. Top management is either clueless of what work to be done or it is their strategy to make people work more than 12 hours almost every day.They will make you work till post midnight. The bosses are mostly incompetent. Alignment and highway lead engineer heading the highway team has zero knowledge about civil engineering. HR is horrible, as they work for the management and not for the employees.Too much politics. Very bad office infrastructure.

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