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Farnsworth Group Inc

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High turnover, bottom line (not employee) -focused, and getting worse - Engineer Farnsworth Group Inc Employee Review

1.0
May 3, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good health care benefits. Employee match 401(k)

Cons

Farnsworth has become less and less accommodating to their employees. They like to tout themselves as an "employee owned company" but that means there are 20-30 principals that have shares in the company and their interest is the bottom line. They are the ones that constantly slash project budgets, hours, and are completely disconnected from the employee (no matter how smooth they talk). The work environment feels very restrictive with respect to using personal time, time off, and flexibility (as in there is little to no flexibility). There is no room for growth in the company. They like to brag that they haven't let anyone off when times are slow but that it because they will assign you to roles way below your abilities and often times not in your field of expertise. It takes most employees a few years to realize that they will not advance in their field, their role, or their pay (expect cost of living raises). Then they leave. The turnover rate is extremely high and Farnsworth does its best to hide this fact. When employees give their notice that they are moving on, Farnsworth will quietly shove them out the door sooner in hopes no one will notice. Then they brag that they are "hiring like crazy". They may be hiring like crazy but they are not growing in numbers because they lose so many employees. They pick up employees desperate for work, grossly underpay them (some positions more than others), then the employees realize this, then they move on. Their rates for clients are so high, it makes them noncompetitive. So they (usually after a principal's review) will slash the hours in their estimates and then chastise the employee for not billing their unrelated hours to a tight budget or chastise them for going over hours if they do bill theses hours. Bottom line in this company: utilization. You better be billing to a client; general time means you get worse treatment. If you're looking for temporary employment while you search for a better job, Farnsworth is your answer. Otherwise, you might reconsider...

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jan 20, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Colleagues - Lots of work, so lots of experience - Admin staff - Basic benefits like anywhere else - Monthly phone stipend - Company vehicle for traveling to job sites

Cons

- Remote work became less and less tolerated (even if work was being completed) - Pay was stagnant and only received inflation-related raises. To put some context, our hourly fees increased about 10-15% each year for inflation and miscellaneous factors, and our pay only increased 9% total in three years. - Always encouraged to work extra hours to meet deadlines, however, no overtime pay. - Year end bonuses were abysmal for the first two years even after record breaking revenues those years. At a point, there was no incentive to work harder if the year end bonus was only going to be f i v e h u n d r e d dollars compared to the thousands upper management was receiving on top of profit sharing. - Profit sharing: only a select few within company are invited - Management: Some managers took the job way too seriously, micromanaging and feeling them breathe on your neck. It clearly showed how little they knew about managing individuals and only cared about profits and how many hours were used on a project. - Saw more HR hires rather than engineer hires to help balance work loads - Constant pressure on our time sheets and making us move time away from general and into projects…

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