Company has evolved from great place to work to a sweat shop focused on pushing ESOP price. - Civil Engineering HNTB Employee Review

2.0
Jul 23, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good place to learn ropes and network with clients and other engineering sub-consultants Opportunity to work on diverse and large mega trasnportation projects

Cons

Company is way conservative in business practices and is extremely averse to risk. HNTB tried to play in the federal market sandbox and it did not turn out well since they would not open offices overseas (except for Guam which is not really a true office) and did not understand how to perform work for Federal govt in an efficient manner. Board of Directors is only concerned about pushing ESOP stock price higher. Board of Directors is setting up golden parachutes for the senior management and little guys will be left holding the bag.

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