Black & Veatch reviews

3.5

66% would recommend to a friend

(2,082 total reviews)
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Mario Azar

42% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Black & Veatch has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 2,082 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Black & Veatch employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Mar 31, 2024

Run

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Pros

Everyone below managers are great to work with.

Cons

To start off, the new CEO has really made the company into a toxic culture. The threats, lies, empty promises. When he took over he told the company he would not change the RTO then a few months later we were required to start coming in three days a week and they told us it would be flexible. Let me tell you it’s not flexible at all. You have to be in office the full eight hours three days a week. If you happen to have something pop up one day, you have to make up your third day. I wouldn’t call that flexible. To make matters even worse, they are now making us wear a tracker on our badges! Saying it’s for “safety” purposes. Talk about not trusting your employees? All this is doing is stressing out people and making people unhappy.

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Black & Veatch Response
2y
Thanks for sharing your views with us. We recognize the move to our hybrid work model more than a year ago was challenging for some professionals. Black & Veatch believes it was important to provide its professionals with flexibility while also enabling the benefits of in-person office collaboration. Navigating this new working model has brought challenges and opportunities. The access control system enhancements are crucial to the safety of our professionals and ensure that first responders have critical safety information during an emergency. The safety and health of employees, clients, and contractors is a Black & Veatch core value, and we have been working on these upgrades as part of our technology roadmap for several years. Again, we appreciate your feedback, and we’ll be sure to share your sentiments.
2.0
Apr 10, 2024

Not the proud BV it use to be.

Recommend
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Pros

Record profits from employees working from home.

Cons

CEO Lack of awareness and fixing mistakes from CEO. Horrible communication techniques from CEO and minimal high level management. I've never worked for a company before where upper management in Regional offices were just as shocked as the professionals when new policies were rolled out.

3.0
Dec 19, 2022

Remove CEO

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Pros

-People -The Future forward Culture we had before CEO Mario -Work schedule flex again before CEO Mario

Cons

CEO lied, continues to lie, bullies, and is changing the BV culture WINW profiles being taken away without any warning. Work-life balance is no longer a priority Profits no longer matter sustainability is not valued

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Black & Veatch Response
3y
We appreciate you sharing your honest thoughts about how WINW is changing. With this change, our leadership team wants us evolve from the pre-COVID days into a new hybrid model that gives us the personal interaction necessary to drive performance, build team spirit and employee engagement, and preserve our culture while also allowing personal flexibility of working remotely. This is what our hybrid model is about; flexibility is part of our culture and will still remain so.
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