Pros
The HR people who monitor this page and post chirpy replies wishing people well in their careers and completely ignoring the valid concerns that are brought up can skip this one, because I don't trust them anymore than I trust Mario and company and I don't care for their patronizing tone or insincere best wishes. If you're looking for a company that offers good benefits, Black & Veatch has some things to offer, such as good health insurance, a decent ESOP plan, and support for progressive stuff like DEI initiatives and renewable/green energy. Just be aware that if you go to work for them, you're going on a train ride called Feed Mario's Ego. After three years of people working full-time remotely, and after the previous CEO retired having said remote work was the future, we were dragged back to the office three days a week because "everybody" had purportedly said in "surveys" which were, of course, unavailable to show anyone, that "everybody" wanted to work from the office again. Hijinks ensued, including Bluetooth tracking devices to make sure people were really coming in three days a week and staying for a full work day. When employees complained about feeling like microchipped house pets, upper management couldn't have cared less. They only backed down on this issue when it became obvious that the trackers could not give them the information they wanted. Since the trackers were retrieved several months ago, the company has launched a vanity initiative to build a brand new headquarters that seems to be mainly a monument to someone's ego, not specifying whose, but that person stated in an employee Town Hall a few days ago that not only did he feel that we should be giving the company more than 40 hours a week, but that "many" employees feel that we should come back to the office 5 days a week because it is so effective to "collaborate" with project teams who are located, in a significant percentage of cases, in far flung locales, which means everyone is driving to the office and then jumping on Microsoft Teams, which could be just as easily done from home. You know, like we did for three years. But hey, what do I know.
Cons
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