WSP

Global engineering & professional consulting
Last updated:
January 23, 2026
Company details
HQ
Montreal, Canada
HEADCOUNT
ORG TYPE
Corporate
SECTOR
Professional Services
About the company
WSP is a global professional services firm that provides engineering, design, and strategic advisory work across the built and natural environment. The company works with public and private-sector clients on transportation, infrastructure, buildings, environment, energy, water, and related services. WSP also runs large multi-country teams and regularly grows through acquisitions. Recent public reporting puts the company at roughly 72,800 employees.
Locations and presence
Palpable Score
77.4
/ 100
WSP is easy to spot as an early-career destination because the company runs multiple structured entry routes across internships, placements, apprenticeships, and graduate programmes, with clear pathways into technical practice. Hiring information is unusually detailed in some early-career channels, and support for professional development is visible through chartership mentoring, early-career networks, and wellbeing support. Pay looks stable and internships are paid, but salary transparency is patchy across regions and role types, which caps the overall score.
Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

18.0
/ 20
  • The company markets multiple entry points in one place, including degree apprenticeships, undergraduate summer placements (at least eight weeks), year-in-industry placements, and a graduate scheme recruiting across six business areas.
  • WSP states that WSP USA hosts “hundreds of interns” and runs a defined summer internship programme (12 weeks) tied to real project work alongside senior staff.
  • The company lists recurring graduate hiring (for example, a 2026 Graduate Programme stream on Gradcracker) alongside “Assistant Engineer/Engineer” roles that sit close to entry level in practice.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

14.8
/ 20
  • The company publishes a step-by-step early-careers recruitment flow in the UK channel: short online form (no CV), screening by Talent Acquisition, an Arctic Shores “Skill Enabler” assessment, interview days, then a conditional offer.
  • WSP has public interview-process benchmarks on Glassdoor including typical stages (phone interview, panel, one-to-one, skills tests) and an average time-to-hire figure, which helps candidates plan.
  • The company still shows mixed candidate experiences in interview feedback, including reports of long timelines and inconsistent communication in some processes, which lowers transparency consistency.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

17.0
/ 20
  • The company offers chartership support in the UK early-career channel, including financial support and a dedicated professional registration mentor for graduates working toward chartered status.
  • WSP runs early-career communities and networking structures, including the UK Professional Growth Network (run by early-career professionals with senior leadership support) and the Developing Professionals Network referenced in US internship materials for mentorship and connections.
  • The company’s early-career profiles and benefits materials repeatedly mention mentoring, wellbeing check-ins, and structured development support alongside project work, rather than leaving learning to chance.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

13.8
/ 20
  • The company explicitly positions degree apprentices as full-time, permanent employees who get paid while learning, and the UK channel also labels placements as paid.
  • WSP publishes pay ranges in at least some US internship postings (for example, an hourly range alongside a “good faith” compensation statement tied to location and internal equity).
  • The company often avoids salary ranges in UK graduate listings (using “competitive” instead) and relies heavily on employee-reported compensation data for transparency, which keeps pay clarity uneven.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

13.8
/ 20
  • The company links early-career progression to recognised qualifications in its graduate programme narratives, including structured support toward professional registration and (in employee profiles) pathways toward bodies like RICS.
  • WSP has broadly positive sentiment signals at scale on Glassdoor (overall rating, recommendation rate, and business outlook), which suggests many employees feel the experience is at least net-positive.
  • The company does not publish clean, early-career outcome stats (intern-to-offer rates, promotion timelines, or retention by cohort) in the sources reviewed, so outcomes have to be inferred from programme features and employee sentiment rather than hard progression data.

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