Black & Veatch reviews

Management has issues distributing work for new hires, interns, and project teams that are held accountable for staying billable. Increasingly unpleasant work environment for on-site employees at HQ as opinions are disregarded and morale suffers. RTO implementation was botched; instead of continuing working in new ways and compromising with commuters, Bluetooth beacons to monitor BLE devices are being installed to supplement badge tracking for HR to track attendance. This comes from above middle management and places resource managers in a tough position defending and enforcing these unwanted policies.

The overarching leadership is full of performative rhetoric, touting 'diversity' and 'psychological safety', neither of which are practiced in action. Professionals have submitted qualifying ADA requests with documentation, only to be rejected and subsequently mishandled by HR (blasting requests with specifics across the HR department, which sounds like a major violation of privacy). Now, strange yearly performance goals, which determine raises, were rolled out to require each person to mentor a diverse professional. Note that it says 'mentor', not build a relationship with, as the person of diversity is assumed to be a lower level. While the effort to embrace diversity should be celebrated, neither of these actions actually demonstrate embracing differences or create inclusion, but rather single out and ostracize those that are different. Earlier this year, Azar gave a textbook definition of gaslighting when discussing the RTO yammer threads, laughing off professionals' concerns and turning it into him as the both the victim and hero. Also, career growth is not clear for all positions and red tape during proposals are cumbersome.