Mechdyne reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(225 total reviews)

Chris Clover

79% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Mechdyne has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 225 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Mechdyne employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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225 reviews
1.0
Jan 8, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You get to travel alot - see different places and work with new technology

Cons

You really are treated badly by management - You are just a means to an end. You may get to travel but often spend most of the day on a plane and are then expected to work a full day! Travelling time is not 'work' time so not paid. Also expenses are not paid very often so with alot of travelling you find your funds running out quickly and you can get in trouble for asking for these back early! - top tip for mechdyne - if you want people to pay in country for everything - give them a company credit card - Do not rely on their own funds as some have families to support!

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Mechdyne Response
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Thank your for your review. Frequent positive feedback that we receive from teammates is the ability to travel and see different places around the world. With that being said, all teammates are compensated for travel time from the moment they leave for business travel until they reach their destination. Per Mechdyne's Travel Expense Policy, expenses are paid out twice a month as long as proper submittals and approvals have taken place for those needing reimbursed. We have made great improvements in communicating with candidate's during the interview process the realistic expectations of work hours, traveling, and what a typical work week at Mechdyne will be like. We are also consistently looking for ways to improve this process and welcome your feedback as to how this could be improved. If you would like to talk more about this issue, please feel free to reach out to us at feedback@mechdyne.com.
4.0
Dec 5, 2015

An Honest Review

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I'm currently working onsite at a large oil company in Houston alongside 30+ other Mechdyne employees. I have worked at several other companies before I worked for Mechdyne in my current position. Compared to the other places I've worked, Mechdyne is a breath of fresh air. Other companies I've been at have had cultures that included backstabbing coworkers and overbearing bosses where if you said the wrong thing you could be canned for it. This is the complete opposite at Mechdyne, I feel that this company genuinely cares about its employees and we are encouraged to speak with our managers if we have issues that we need to discuss. My coworkers are really great for the most part and there is a real sense of being a part of a team here. Despite what other reviewers have said here on this website, there is a very strong culture in place at Mechdyne. I think the problem with some of these other people are that they are unhappy because they don't fit the culture but they expect to change things to meet their particular desired viewpoint of what this culture should look like. There are also others that have very little real world experience and don't know a good thing when they see it. Advice to all these folks: if you're that unhappy with Mechdyne then you should probably go work somewhere else. Something else to add here - I was at the Holiday Party the other night and the Global Service Department Manager did not tell anyone to go write positive reviews on this website. Whoever wrote that is making things up which pretty much sums up the character of said individual.

Cons

While the idea of a "career ladder" is great, in actuality it is a pretty big mess. At a certain point one begins to feel as though they are jumping through hoops with little reasoning behind doing the work. Additionally there are time requirements that could potentially hold one back from advancing until they've met said requirements. Another con is that part of the company core values is the idea of "expect a lot". This can mean a variety of things including working long hours under difficult situations and being asked to do more work than what can actually be done in a given amount of time.

1.0
Dec 1, 2015

A real review following another Mechdyne produced- positive review

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

First, as I've said in the title block, I'm writing a review to follow another glowing, self-generated review by Mechdyne. Why? I think it is in the public’s best interests to write one each time they post another positive fairy tale. It is only fair that all be warned before stepping into a career limiting engagement at Mechdyne. BTW, there have been four of these reviews produced in the past 2 years or so - see if you can pick them all out. A hint, the two prior to this one are two of them. Hats off to HR! Keep them coming! Mechdyne is the wrong choice for anyone. An opinion yes, but you can easily find many that hold the same one. They don't deserve to have good people accepting their false offers. If you do choose to interview, ask how many people have left or been discharged in the past 24 months. Then ask for the number of full-time non-management, non-site assigned technical staff are currently employed. If you can get them to tell the truth - which is a foreign concept and rarely used at Mechdyne - you should find the ratio of those chucked to those employed to be rather unbelievable. I don't have exact numbers but guessing is fun. Full time staff - excluding management and on-site, technical staff – 30?, great people tossed out – 40?. Do the math and then ask them why? Perhaps they consider this fun? If true, what does this make them? Where do they find the time?

Cons

Mechdyne does very little of what they claim to do or know. They are expert at nothing but self-promotion and they're not good at that either. They are essentially a body shop for the O & G industry. That is to say they derive the majority of their revenue through the rental of on-site engineers to Oil and Gas giants, BP and Exxon. They also sell an occasional virtual reality system. That's it. The rest is window-dressing. Follow social media as they crow about even the slightest VR related achievement. Scroll back and count the number of VR systems advertised on same. I think it might total three in the past 1 to 2 years - ouch. Then take a look at their two rivals, Eon and Virtalis - ouch again! These guys open new, major offices around the world at a clip much higher than Mechdyne generates a sale! Even VisBox is stomping past them. It's as if they don't even notice the highly competitive integration market pass them bye. Their rapid rate of demise must be due to the poor work of all of those they regularly throw out. Hold it, those people are gone and this is happening? Could it be due to those that remain? Please say it isn't so.

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