Solid Engineering Firm but Challenged with Growing Pains
Pros
Employee ownership structure is strong with annual performance well above 10% on average. Benefits package is competitive with a few perks that best similar sized firms. Strong focus on equity, diversity and inclusion that is actually implemented Employee salaries and positions are frequently reviewed and aligned with market conditions 3 times/year. This means that inequities in pay and/or promotions are rarely an issue.
Cons
Company touts it's "sophisticated" approaches to various elements of business but reality is that many of the company's processes are antiquated and outdated. Externally, the firm seems very progressive and elevated but internally, there a lot of inefficiencies and challenges to doing business that a focus on modernization would improve. The company isn't very good at leveraging resources across geographies yet encourages work sharing and touts it's network of resources. If you're in a growing office, it can be very difficult to workshare and engage firm wide resources due to the organizational metrics that are locally focused. The company's marketing teams are poorly organized which makes it difficult if you're in a sales role. There is no bonus structure or incentivized rewards back to the employee owners. Most ESOP companies offer some type of profit sharing to their high performers and HNTB is silent on this.
