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      Black & Veatch

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      Black & Veatch reviews

      3.5

      67% would recommend to a friend

      (2,082 total reviews)
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      Mario Azar

      43% approve of CEO

      62% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Black & Veatch has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 2,082 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Black & Veatch 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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      2K reviews
      3.0
      Jan 18, 2009

      Black & Veatch a good place to work.

      Estimator
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      9-80 work schedule, reasonable workloads, diverse project opportunities, great benefits. Also many different geographic locations. Great patience to teach young proffessionals. Decent pay, low degree of backstabbing, and open communication. Great HR support, good industry reputation

      Cons

      Poor morale, too much "dead wood" in many positions creating lack of motivation. Company is too cheap. Even trying to get a stapler can be a challenge. Always claim to lose money. Loe emphasis on emerging markets and technologies, aging office buildings with depressing grey cubicle structure. LAck of company peks and teambuilding activities.

      4.0
      Aug 20, 2008

      Proud, successful and good, but not (yet) the best.

      Engineering manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The opportunities, the scale of the company and the projects and the chance to push yourself as had as you want. Black & Veatch is truly a global company, and the opportunities to travel, to work in different fields and to work on huge, difficult projects are there, if you want them. There is also (unfortunately) too much opportunity to just warm a seat, to the detriment of the whole organization. Overall, better than any organization of a comparable size and scale that I have seen, but not yet all the way to its potential, especially with regards to an understanding of how to match skills to the market.

      Cons

      The occasionally Byzantine nature of the politics and the difficulty in keeping focus on the essentials, are the worst elements. Like any organization full of ambitious people, there are occasional lapses into shameless careerism, to the detriment of the overall organization, and unfortunately too often rewarded. In addition, we seem to have strayed (occasionally) from the essential wisdom of the founders “Get, Work, Do Work, Make Money”. Perhaps a bit simplistic these days, but still a better focus on what we actually do than other attempts. A clearer match between strategy and the markets needs to be implemented, but that as for all comparable organizations is easier said than done.

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