Small vs Large Engineering Company Which one should you choose? - Employee Perspective

Recently joined a large engineering firm as a graduate fire engineer having studied a masters in structural and fire engineering. I can tell you 3 months in, you will be involved in highly prestigious projects in a heavily involved manner running various packages and dealing with the client and architect etc one on one IF you manage to find a niche branch of the field you study, mine being the fire engineering side

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Keep up the good work from an engineer working in the country and previously worked for prestigious engineering consultants.

Think about the types of projects you will get to work on. Think about the variety of experience you will get. Think about the training, learning and mentoring you will get. Some companies and some supervisors will give you good training, others won't. This may not even relate to the size of the company. The best choice may be a larger small company.

I am a intern at Rincovitch Consultant will see you one day at WSP which is my dream firm

What do u think about working in the building department in the city government as a structural engineer? What is the pro and con comparing to working in a large consulting firm in a private sector?

Thank you for this video. Happens that I’ve just graduated and I’m in a position where both a small and large company want to hire me and it’s being too difficult for me to make the right choice, being that I have almost no experience.

I've been working for a boutique engineering firm in Melbourne for the last 5 years, working to become registered. I get paid about the same as the big firms for the same 'job title', however I feel that what you've said regarding the advantage of start to finish, hands on experience working for a small firm is absolutely true.
The other thing I could mention is that some small firms in Melbourne don't have draftspeople, so as a graduate you also pick up an additional skill producing structural documentation, which is also a transferable skill if you wanted to focus on drafting over engineering.
BUT you can hit a ceiling in a small firm, right now I'm looking to work at a larger firm to diversify my experience, however a lot of larger firms like to hire those who have experience in other blue chip firms (not all, but quite a few)
Maybe you could do a video on how to land a job in a larger firm specifically?

Hi brendan are you also an architect? because i heard you said you won architectural award. Do you recommend structural engineers to learn architectural design. Thanks for this amazing video

Insightful Brendon, keep going.

thanks man , commenting so that this profession can get more marketing ♥️

Great content as always!

I gathered from this the best compromise is a medium sized firm. That is large enough to scalp big projects from the multinationals due to fees/specific experience, but small enough to give all levels of the design team a lot of involvement from day 1.

Great video with some good insight. Having worked for only a small firm my whole career up to now, I'm getting to a cross-road where I need to consider if a move to a larger company will be beneficial. This has been weighing heavily on my mind lately, as I'm keen on getting into a new environment with new challenges and opportunities, but also being mindful of not losing what I've been "building" at the company so far. I suppose it will come down to where I will learn, grow and develop most to serve the rest of my career.

Hey Brendan, Thanks for your insight ! this will be really helpful in my decision making process when I start looking for graduate positions.

Hi, so you recommend the career development is

Early stage - either small or large
Mid stage - large
Final stage - small

is it true that the larger firms, the work tends to be more stressful ?

Great video, thank you. Having worked for both, I do prefer the structure of working for a larger firm, but the amount of responsibility I had working for a smaller firm helped me a lot in terms of my technical competence.

Maybe make a video of the same topic but from the prospect client point-of-view?