Bechtel reviews

Onto the Cons. This is not a female friendly or minority friendly company...at all. Bechtel staffs and de-staffs projects very quickly and if you are "low" ranked they will layoff their personnel very quickly. However, their ranking policies are inherently flawed. Ranking is based on the following (equal) criteria: performance, relocation availability, and likeability. Therefore, think about it. If you are a person at a stage in your life where you need work life balance and cannot relocate easily; you will be laid off. If you boss dislikes you...you will be laid off. Your performance only accounts for 1/3. You can guess a lot of female employees who are pregnant get...laid off. Many parents with young kids get laid off. Employees who are disabled are deemed unable to perform and are laid off. Employees on short term disability are laid off. This is a trend. Employees for them are commodities. Over the last eight years I've seen them try over and over again to try and reinvent the company culture. But last I checked only 1/10th of SVPs and VPs were women. Over the course of a 100 years their (distinguished scientific) fellows had 2 females. Company culture changes are not forthcoming. They have three employee resource groups: a veterans group, a women's group, and the "new" employee group. The Women@Bechtel group is four years old. Bechtel is inherently a "good old boys" club. I fear for Brendan Bechtel (the CEO's) daughter's futures in this company if this doesn't change.

-OLD SCHOOL mentality (no flex time, military style mgmt, big time generational gaps) -Encourages "questioning attitude" but when you exhibit questioning attitude, you are put down and mgmt retaliates. -Very high turnover due to disatisfaction with mgmt. Yet mgmt continues with crappy practices. The problems not addressed. -Have to get overtime approved in advance. Sometime unforeseen circumstances cause OT and then you don't get the OT because it wasn't approved in advance. -Extremely UNFLEXIBLE mgmt. They do not allow deviation from the set schedule of 7am to 430pm. If you are just one minute late, some mangers really come unglued. One mgr does a "walkaround" at 7:02am to see who is at their desks and takes roll. Hello we aren't 5 years old. However, if you stay 1-2 hours late, no one notices or says thank you. -Babysitting environment = very rule and procedure oriented -Cronyism. Good ol "boys" club and heavy politics govern promotion rather than hard work or compentency. One person keeps getting promoted over and over and over and no one understands why. They are very incompetent, lose documents, forget deadlines, puts people down. Whenever they are in charge of a department...turnover goes through the roof. YET they keep getting promoted. Many HR complaints have been logged against them but they keep getting promoted. -Slackers seem to get away with chronic lateness, long lunches, and not pulling their weight...and get rewarded with promotions and praise. The hard workers are harassed and bullied out of their jobs. Many hard working competent people have left because of this! -Published company policies and procedures are applied in an inconsistent and variable manner -The company pigeon-holes you into where they think you fit instead of where you want to go -Lots of promised opportunities that don't come to fruition. -LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW MORALE