HNTB reviews

We call it "HNTB: How Not To Be". There is very little sense of teamwork between different service lines and different offices; there is a strong sense of turf, of "my group" and my projects" rather than "our company's projects. The leadership emphasizes the need to make the bottom line look good, this month, which often leads to problems next month.

Generally the company philosophy, which is more about achieving business metrics and less about engineering innovation. The company could put a fraction of the energy it places in the details of project recording and instead encourage greater collaboration. The company is especially siloed in terms of its professional practices - architecture is separated from engineering, planning may be split into multiple offices within a locality for no particular reason. The lack of integration makes it especially difficult to achieve design synergies.