Hensel Phelps reviews

If you are an "industry hire" as they refer to them, there is a hard glass ceiling and you will not go far. They promote from within and good luck getting past a PM or project superintendent level at best. It's "political" is what several people told me. Too scared to upset the apple cart. Operations Management is out of touch and very resistant to change if it doesn't come from them or in one ear out the other; too worried about their stock value than the well being of the employees or making nominal investments to help folks succeed. A company of managers very few leaders. There are a few good ones but that is the exception. Promotions seem to be strongly based on favoritism for folks that probably should not be in the position but they have been around for some time and started right out of school and they do not necessarily have the skill sets needed to be in a position of true leadership. This undermines the morale of project teams. no rhyme no reason. Accounting is horrible to deal with for anything; very condescending and extremely difficult to work with. Expense reports take too long for reimbursement. Quality of life is a joke there isn't any. Pay below average. Employees that would be terminated at any other company are usually retained and they just bounce them from office to office or promote them. Very title heavy company...all about throwing the titles around. Moves at a moment notice with little regard to personal situations which puts people and families in challenging positions. Just because you did it 20 years ago doesn't mean it is acceptable nowadays. Kind of a frat house ultra type A personality/mentality on certain jobs. No annual review that counts towards anything.

It's a straight up pyramid scheme that is not worth it by any measure. They start you out at one of the lowest salaries in the industry as a field engineer. This position is often incredibly disrespected and treated like children, even by office engineers (a "promotion" that you receive zero additional benefit for). If you make it through 5 years of field and office engineering, congratulations you made it to project engineer, which is more or less the project managers punching bag and most overworked position in the company. But hey, at least you got S units now, right? You've been working here for so long to get these measly 100 S-units. But they're worth nothing until they vest out over ANOTHER 5 years. So at a minimum, you've worked there for 10 years and you have yet to see any financial benefit. But hey, you're making a cool 63k a year at that point so it was all worth it right? It's even shittier if you are single, you know how healthcare is funded by the entire company? Well that's how they justify the lower salaries, yet it's only a handful of people blowing up the monthly healthcare cost while destroying your salary total. At the end of the year, you'll get a letter with your total compensation and they attribute some ridiculous number to your healthcare, when in reality if you are young and healthy there is almost no chance you'll realize any of that value. Do yourself a favor and pass on HP if they start to recruit you. Even if you get hired on at one of the higher positions, you won't vest out for a minimum of 5 years and there is no way it'll be worth the stress and nepotism you will endure to get there.