Great Company in the Construction Industry - Project Engineer I Mortenson Employee Review

5.0
May 22, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Great salary and benefits - Awesome people and fun events regularly - Great place to come right out of college - Long work weeks are compensated with generous vacation time

Cons

- Work-life balance is a struggle; you must work on this at an individual level for many years - Middle management isn't always the most capable; promoting before ready for the advancement - Expect many long work weeks throughout a project

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Pros

Hands-on experience with team guidance.

Cons

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3.0
Jun 1, 2026
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Pros

- Huge company with a lot of resources. - Cool projects.

Cons

- Pay is not great especially for the amount of hours they want you to put in. - They do not pay for experience. So, it’s a good place to start, but if you have experience, go somewhere else. - They hire and promote way too quickly which means inexperienced people are in charge. - If you work in the field, you will be putting in 50-60 hours a week often and they justify it by saying you get subsistence. Do the math, you’re not getting paid very well at those hours even with subsistence. Also subsistence is a benefit for traveling, not justification for overusing employees. - While a lot of the people are good, it is a very political atmosphere.

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