Black & Veatch reviews

The new CEO continuously touted working from home as a benefit separating BV from its competitors. We hired people with the lure of working remotely. Now he's forcing everyone to return to the office 3 days a week even though 90% of BV employees want to remain virtual. With the new reorganization, the sales teams are abandoning smaller divisions in favor of larger divisions. Therefore, there is no longer a steady stream of long billable projects to work on unless you're in a big division. Finally, BV recently forced everyone to purchase BV stock as their 401k contributions as opposed to investing in other funds. You are forced to be an owner.

Lost faith in decision making of leadership and CEO. With little feedback, the decision to completely change our business model to working in the office and reorganize, again, was made after a record year. Furthermore, the recent change is causing clear hardship with many professionals. Leadership does not care and is not responding to the mass outcry with is seriously disappointing. All this after reporting in April 2022 that working from home is her to stay. Normally I try to hire in everyone I can, spreading the word that this company has something for everyone. It has been a great experience until now. If you are looking for bonuses, I would not expect much the next couple years as I expect the resource drain from this quick decision to ruin our chances to take advantage of a hugely hot market over the next two years. Before the above issue, only cons were our onboarding practices are inconsistent, we don’t target schools that have non traditional but good talent for our roles, and we seem to have a hard time supporting critical resource needs and over-supporting more stagnant markets resulting in burnout.