Kleinfelder reviews

Lots of favouritism between friends and US nationals, and little recognition to hard work and effort. Their projects aren't managed realistically as they low-budget them in order to get the projects and impress their clients. Once the projects are in progress the return on the investment is usually lower, which makes minimum profitability, and loses and write offs are very common. The write offs can easily be twice as high as the invoice total. Kleinfelder's objective is to acquire clients no matter how much money they lose. However, the scheme to low-budget projects that invest 100% of their production and get 35% or 50% in return is counterproductive. The company then layoffs employees and cuts off expenses including as basic as coffee, pens, and markers to somehow balance for their loses.

Most of the people I worked with have moved on to better opportunities because the company is floundering and not making a profit. Why? I honestly don't know. The top-heavy management structure has always been clueless and opaque, and we never got satisfying explanations from them. All I do know is that the employees are being squeezed in an effort to turn a profit. First overtime and comp time was taken away, then a series of office closures, layoffs, poor raises, etc. And top of all that, the employee share of the cost of health benefits keeps going up every year. So while I can't tell you why Kleinfelder is struggling to a make a profit, I can tell you that it is trying to make a profit by treating employees like line items on a cost sheet.