Syska Hennessy reviews

3.8

66% would recommend to a friend

(181 total reviews)
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Cyrus Izzo

56% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Syska Hennessy has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 181 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Syska Hennessy 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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181 reviews
1.0
Apr 26, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The cons outweighed the pros by a large margin

Cons

Syska was not an inclusive place to be. Ask yourself this before working for Syska: Do I want to work for a company that does not prioritize my health or safety?

1.0
Nov 26, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work half day on Fridays.

Cons

If you have some love and respect for yourself please DON’T APPLY TO THIS COMPANY! This company is a combination of low pay and long hours of work on projects that always go over budget. They burn out their employees, and there is no real mentorship. The company is not diverse, no women, or younger people, this creates a big gap between the senior level and the entry level engineers. Your hard work is not appreciated, even if they say it is, so be expected to work long hours because project deadlines were due yesterday.

4.0
Apr 26, 2018

Great People, Poor Management

Recommend
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Pros

I overall enjoyed my time working there and am thankful for the relationships that I built and experience that I gained working under some great leaders in the industry. From a technical competency aspect the company is very strong and I learned a lot there.

Cons

The biggest issues I experienced were managements inability to change their strategies after it was clear that the current direction was heavily pointed downward. I'm not sure how much of this "stay the course" attitude was driven my local Atlanta management or by corporate management out of NYC but it was obvious things were spiraling downward in terms of morale, staffing and revenue. Over the course of 2 years I watched around half of the staff leave the Atlanta office. Management never supplemented these major losses with new talent to fill in the gaps left behind. At first, one would think this is a great opportunity to promote from within and increase compensation for all remaining employees but that didn't happen either. So what you were left with was an understaffed office that overworked the remaining employees while not earning higher salaries. It was clear that local management was aware of the need for staff but they always countered with excuses such as "we don't have the budget for more staff right now," "we found someone but their compensation demands were too high and we couldn't come to an agreement" and sometimes just "it's really hard to find someone right now."

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