Farnsworth Group Inc reviews

Management very clearly rewards age, not loyalty or work ethic. Employees that have been with the company less than a couple years and are above 45 yrs old get offered stakeholder shares while long term employees in their 30s have lower pay and less recognition. Older employees also are brought in at higher positions, often having younger employees train them on systems they are supposed to be competent in.

Expect to be with the company no more than 2 years. You will be used as a pawn and will be stuck in a hotel traveling to job sites early each morning 95% of the time. This position is the most profitable within the Company/ Oil and Gas Division. Most people will be hired on temporarily for 1 or 2 projects, then cut. Bottom line is this. the company makes no money by having you sit in the office. You will be thrown into the field for weeks/months at a time. Farnsworth will try to limit you traveling back and forth from home via air travel/Work truck(they will pay for it or charge client typically). Once spring rolls around the new wave of college recruits come pouring out. Instead of giving a raise where its due to a current Pipeline engineer (having put a year in the field or more..), Farnsworth will terminate you and train a new recruit fresh out of college. This position helps keep the company afloat. They will not have fully licensed engineer out in the field filling this roll. This is due to the profit margins. Cheap labor. 60-80 hour weeks will be the norm. You will be sitting inside a truck watching people labor for 10-12 hours a day. These laborers grow envy of this clean cut college kid sitting in a truck watching them all day. Making notes. Everyone you will be working with on these sites is familiar with how Farnsworth employees operate and why they are there. In other words, they will try to walk over you and run you off site in many cases. Remember your expendable. Too many complaints on site and Farnsworth says bye bye. Good first job out of college. No room for advancement in this position. Farnsworth has all their eggs in one basket. 1 major client. Magellan Midstream Partners. This is due to an internal friendship between 2 old college friends. Oil and Gas division will suffer greatly if Magellan finds a cheaper alternative. We overcharge for our services. The services this position delivers to client is elementary and can be done with any savvy onsite inspector.......If anyone at Magellan has made it this far into my review....Cut costs and start training the Inspectors to handle Pilot Hole calculations. Its simple and I have ran across a handful of Inspectors with the insight knowledge with Excel tabulations to formulate everything. This position may indeed be fizzled out in the years ahead.....Skills grow static and you will compartmentalized in the position.