DNV reviews

Let’s start with how they traumatize you by counting every minute you are working on a project. I had project managers argue with me about over-billing a project by an hour or two. You need to bill 36/40 hours to projects in order to stay billable and you don’t get any help in finding long term projects - you need to work on whatever they give you and if project managers choose to give you work, you need to bill downwards as much as possible or else you will straight up get bullied. I’ve been called names, got yelled at in public and dealt with a whole range of the most unprofessional, nasty behavior I’ve ever come across in my entire professional career. When I would bring this up to my manager, I wouldn’t get much support, mostly radio silence and lip service with him cherry-picking small mistakes I had made to perhaps defend the nasty project managers. When I had requested to have him settle a dispute between me and a project manager, he would always reply with one liner emails along the lines of: “I don’t have time for this now” I seemed to be one of very few people in their late 20s with most of the company being between 38-60.

One can come up with an endless list here. The energy efficiency sections are essentially run like sweat shops with mind numbingly boring work and slave masters for managers. They will keep you where you are because they need the grunt workers to keep the ship running, so zero opportunity for any growth. Learning stops in a couple of months after you understand how programs work. They’ll take your ideas and run with them without giving you any credit. Micro managers everywhere. The renewables groups seem to be a little better but almost impossible to transfer because managers won’t let you. They’ll make empty promises to get you on board and give you false hope to make you stay. Pay is obnoxiously low, I’m taking an offer elsewhere for twice the DNV GL salary without even negotiating. STAY AWAY, especially from the midwestern offices.