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      RETTEW

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      RETTEW reviews

      3.1

      49% would recommend to a friend

      (83 total reviews)
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      Clayton Bubeck

      52% approve of CEO

      45% positive business outlook

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      RETTEW has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 83 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The RETTEW employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).

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      83 reviews
      4.0
      Mar 12, 2019

      Not perfect, but a good place to work

      Project manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      I've worked at RETTEW for about five years and have had a good experience with the company. I read some of the others reviews and really don't see the negatives that some spoke of. I've been able to advance my career and have been given more responsibility, which is what I was looking for. The company just went 100% ESOP and I think that will be a benefit to me. They are working to diversify the workload and just added sick days on top of PTO. I like the people I work with and it's pretty relaxed in the office.

      Cons

      Adding the sick days was positive, but the PTO could be better. The 401K match isn't the best, but the ESOP should make up for that. It seems like we are moving in the right direction.

      1.0
      Mar 5, 2019

      Detestable practices, small town mentality

      Project coordinator
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Some coworkers were great to work with. Remote work made the locality tolerable for those commuting

      Cons

      I watched coworkers cry from the culture of gossip and bullying at this company. It is not a long term investment for anyone with ambition. This is where careers come to die. The administrative staff is beyond unprofessional at the project level, barring a few people, and the wonderful front desk staff. Inflexible leadership, limited growth potential, Funding and pay is less than ideal.

      4.0
      Jan 28, 2019

      Cautiously Optimistic

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The company feels like it's heading in the right direction. At the start of 2019 it became a 100% ESOP. Too early to see specific benefits yet, but profits going to everyone instead of a few should be a great thing, long-term. Some of the earlier reviews on Glassdoor reference things that seem to be improving. It did feel like layoffs, forced vacations, and hour reductions were all on a hair trigger 4 years ago, but not recently. I think they expanded too quickly with the first gas boom, suffered a lot of pain with the gas crash, and the effects lingered. I think they're trying to grow at a more healthy/sustainable rate now, with more client and industry diversity. In 2019 they added 2 sick days to everyone's PTO. It's a good step towards getting closer to the amount of vacation other companies offer. One of the biggest pros is the flexibility (may be department-specific, I'm not sure). There's a lot of flexibility on arrival/departure times and working from home, as long as the work is getting done and communication is happening. Company vehicles - I've worked other places where the vehicles were nearing deathtrap status. Not here, at all. In fact, this probably should be a larger item: safety. Rettew actually puts tremendous effort into keeping people safe. From training to equipment, which includes impeccable vehicle maintenance.

      Cons

      No company is perfect. I've worked other places where the trade-offs were things like crappy pay, over-demanding bosses, or annoying coworkers. Not here. I think the trade-off here is a weird sort of detachment from non-work life. As in: Rettew is the only place I've ever worked where there's not a single company event with families invited. I could work here for 40 years and never meet any coworker's family. That's weird, right? I'm not saying it's a bad work-life balance - I don't feel pressured to forget my family exists, or to work ridiculous hours or anything, it's just... When you get here you take off your other life hats and put on the Rettew hat. You go to your cubicle or office and work. If you pass a coworker you might have a friendly conversation about: work, sports, current events, or the weather. But never "real life". On the whole, it's an okay trade-off, just strange. Other cons: the 401k match is very low (the new ESOP should help offset it, though a healthy 401k in *other* companies is important). Utilization - this is one thing from older reviews here that hasn't changed. Yes, you'll hear about billable hours. There have been hints at leadership discussing whether it's a terrible, useless metric. But not enough for me to put "this is improving" in the Pros category.

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