Wood reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(2,778 total reviews)

Ken Gilmartin

46% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Wood has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 2,778 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Wood employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
May 18, 2018

ugh.....

Anonymous employee
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Pros

not much, really wish there were some nice things to say but you know what they say...

Cons

just started working here and already regret my decision. first of hiring process was painfully slow. they would not negotiate salary and took forever to respond - like months. I was told I would get a bonus and 3 weeks vacation. this was not listed in my offer letter so I asked for it to be included which HR told me not to worry about it so I went ahead being navie and signed it. so guess what now, I found out I do not get a bonus and I only get 2 weeks of vacation. vacation aslo must be earned you do not get it right away. other friends of mine get their vacation as soon as they start and can take time off rifght away. this was not explanined to me at all. wood is also very elitist. I was given a crappy hand me down slow computer without a monitor. my computer runs so slow that I have problems doing my job. when I asked they told me we do not have the budget so I have to wait. I also got a iPhone 5 for work. we then hired some new managers and a director and low and behold they all got brand new laptops, 20 in monitors and iPhone 7's. what the heck? I understasnd they are higher up but to treat others that unfairly is ridiculous. plus you cannot access USB drives and have to buy own office supplies. not joking.

1.0
Dec 13, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pretty new refrigerators and microwaves in the kitchen areas, but all depends if you are in the nicer buildings. Some of the older buildings are in bad shape have funny smells.

Cons

Very ironic that People listed as one of there core values when they treat people rather poorly. Lots of redundancies going on with Foster acquisition on both sides and instead of trying to move people to other roles or find other sutiable places for them they decide to fire people. Too many good people and skills being lost. Then I havee seen managment hire brand new people for similar or sometimes the same roles at a much higher rate. Cronyism? Makes no sense. Several mangers are also to afraid to let go there own people making HR do the layoffs instead. Cowardly. Again managment seems to afraid to act. When they want to get rid of someone they put them on a special project. Had mupltile cases of people straight up quitting because they were frustrated on there special projets. I suppose that is kinda smart so severence is not paid but seems unessary to put people thruogh that. If someone is really doing a poor job or needs coaching then just tell them instead of playing the speical projects games.

1.0
Nov 29, 2017

Manager

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good employees to work with.

Cons

Stock price is more important than employee satisfaction. Consistently changing Sr level management. New management doesn’t understand core business

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