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Clark Construction Group

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Learn a lot but company should focus on work/life balance - Office Engineer Clark Construction Group Employee Review

3.0
May 3, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Company is extremely reputable in the DC area and works on many high profile projects. You definitely get to wear many hats when working onsite and pick up many valuable skills in the construction and project management realm. Great training opportunities on a higher level... teaching about PM skills, RFIs, Budgeting, LEED. Many folks have been with Clark for the long haul so there is definitely a lot of experienced people to learn from.

Cons

Despite all the "hats" you get to wear on projects, there's typically a negative attitude amongst the lower level staff as upper management treats them poorly. Countless times where a task would be presented as a "great opportunity" but in reality it was likely others just did not want to do a tedious task and wanted to make someone else do it. Also, mid/high level management would ask office engineers to perform tasks with little or no training and then get annoyed when asking for help. Promotion cycles are about 2-3 years so compared to a quicker pace company employees may not see the light at the end of the tunnel. Work/Life balance is horrible... onsite by 6:30/7 AM (which is typical of projects/non-issue) and then working 10 hours at a minimum but typically 12+. Depending on project status it's not uncommon for weekend work or late nights (upwards of 14 hours) if a project needs to meet crucial deadlines. Long days are fine, I knew what I was signing up for but there was always an attitude from others that your personal life didn't matter and any problems caused by others were somehow your fault. Anytime I took vacation days (only 10 per year) I would get attitude from colleagues. It's the nature of the business but still not something you want to see as a new hire starting your first job.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

-Interesting projects -Exposure within the industry

Cons

-Almost every review I’ve seen everyone says over worked. They say it’s the industry but Clark is known in the construction world for that. Working 12 hours in the field in normal and expected. - they favor certain people and make them little mentees under long term employees. Those people are then given a gold star. -Departments who you think would care about their people ( HR and Communications do not) -become so woke yet don’t actually react -Make the new vacation policy look like a benefit but it’s actually less time and keeps them from having to pay out if you leave - take pride in “safety” but expect you to drive to work in a snowstorm because they cleared the parking lot. The amount of people that were amazed at that email is insane.

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