Load of anxiety - Staff Civil Engineer Kleinfelder Employee Review

1.0
21 Nov 2022
Recommend
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Pros

SOME people were nice to work with.

Cons

If you get an interview/offer for the Civil team in the San Diego office…RUN! The leadership for the civil team in the San Diego office is toxic! All what the leadership in the civil team offer for the employees is stress and anxiety. The civil team there is crumbling and it’s basically not a team, it’s every person by his/her own. It is all basically caused from the leadership of the team. It says a lot when a team leader belittles and humiliates the staff when they have a question and offers absolutely no guidance. To summarize things, 6 employees left the civil team in less than 2 years and I assure you at least 5 of the 6 left because of the leadership. The civil team in the San Diego office is basically a landfill for other teams there. If the water and/or bridge teams do no want to work on a specific project, they just throw it to the civil team there. So basically all the projects the civil team works on are small and under-budget project. Pay is extremely low with absolutely no bonuses. Hard work is not rewarded or appreciated.

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Kleinfelder Response
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4.0
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Pros

- lovely coworkers - some really cool projects since Kleinfelder wins lots of different types of projects! thankfully i had good relationships with the project managers, but peers that don't have a long history don't have enough work flow or don't get to work on projects they want to - very caring boss - flexible work from home policy

Cons

- incredibly repetitive sometimes - inconsistent work and stress related to staying billable - drab and uninspiring workplace energy - lots of non-optional travel - anyone other than my boss and direct peers was not caring - it's all just a bit corporate and no one is really in love with what they're doing - barely got raises consistent with inflation

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