Kleinfelder reviews

Management does not listen to their employees' concerns. Operates to maximize profit at any cost including squeezing benefits from its workers. Projects are bid low and unrealistically to acquire work from client as they are new in Canada, but then management turns around and blames its workers for losing money and justifying cuts and don't take responsibility. Management is very tunnel visioned in their ways and do not entertain employees' ideas to help its business. It is okay to management to keep adding responsibilities to a worker without giving them the proper raise or title. No overtime pay even though it is industry standard for field work.

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.