Pros and Cons both - Department Manager NV5 Employee Review

3.0
Jul 22, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Opportunity to develop new clients, Many Great People, Friendly and collegial work environment, Supportive Marketing Team, flexible WFH and W/L Balance

Cons

-401K - Annual Match is at firm's discretion and is mostly in unvested stock - there was no match in my tenure -Bonus - ALL in stock with a 3-year vest, and for most people is ONLY vested if you stay for 3 years - even if laid off it is company's option whether or not to vest the stock -Constant Acquisitions upend contacts in other groups -Firings - I'd never worked anywhere where so many mid to upper-level people (around the country) with whom I worked were fired for not meeting goals (I'm not talking about layoffs) - Unrealistic utilization goals (as a department manager I was expected to be 80% billable AND manage my team, department financials, AND develop all my own business for my group)

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5.0
Feb 3, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The office staff cares about employees, the staff is very caring about eachother, lots of after-work activities, good and honest work, managers are attentive to needs, and there are plenty of opportunities to move up the ladder.

Cons

Sometimes I'd rather be at work than at home.

1.0
Jul 13, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Work from home freedom Boss is very communicative

Cons

They rely on ghost writing too much instead of having the inspectors write their own reports. They hire very very poor subcontractors to do inspections that give very bad info and take poor photos. No breaks from one report to the other. The report review also needs help... lots of errors in prior reports. Constantly overloaded fixing everyone's mistakes. Lazy coworkers. Lots of late late nights working.

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