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Farnsworth Group Inc

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High-character employees will thrive - Structural Engineer Farnsworth Group Inc Employee Review

4.0
Jun 22, 2018
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Pros

Great staff. You are entrusted with a high level of responsibility, but with that comes professional growth and opportunity. Disciplinary groups are fairly small so there is a strong team environment with each person having influence on the practice and on success of group. Recently formed structural team in Denver office shows great promise and is growing both in terms of staff and size of projects and focused on producing quality work. Other structural teams within company are also made up of quality staff. Good project variety and exposure to other design disciplines. Competitive salary compared to other firms in Denver metro.

Cons

When workload stacks up sometimes overtime is required to meet deadlines due to smaller size of groups. This has more to do with nature of industry than Farnsworth, but does occasionally happen. Generally work-life balance is reasonable. Bonuses not always great but higher salary makes up for it.

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5.0
Jun 7, 2026
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Pros

Great work environment and exposure to different areas of experience.

Cons

Not sure yet. Have not been around long enough.

2.0
Jan 20, 2026
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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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