Buro Happold reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(693 total reviews)
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Oliver Plunkett

97% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Buro Happold has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 693 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Buro Happold employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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693 reviews
4.0
Nov 15, 2017

Good place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Involved in a variety of tasks / duties from the start

Cons

Work life balance is a challenge at times

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Buro Happold Response
8y
Hi, thank you for sharing your positive feedback on BuroHappold. We strive to ensure all roles across the business have as much variety as we can. We have introduced concepts to help create a healthy work life balance, such as POETS and wellbeing week. Due to the nature of our industry project deadlines can be a stressful time and we are looking at different ways to lessen the impact on our people. We appreciate your feedback.
2.0
Nov 11, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

- Great Projects - Amazing individuals - Flexible hours - Social events (in house)

Cons

- Lack of leadership - Lack of motivation from senior level - Lack of technical skills from most of the job leaders (pure managers) - Lack of knowledge sharing - Poor resource management - Office work strategy to be reviewed - Sadly this office seems to be going downhill

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Buro Happold Response
8y
Hi, thank you for your comments and your appreciation of the positive internal work environments that we provide to our employees. We are constantly striving to enhance our technical training programmes and have also overhauled the career progression process. We have also implemented varying means of communication to share knowledge, business updates and best practice, including; Yammer, Global all Calls, a CEO channel and Regional Newsletters. We appreciate your feedback.
2.0
Nov 4, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Just to note: this is a compiled comments from several colleagues in the grad/eng level - Interesting projects - Office in great location - Multi-disciplinary - Exposure to architect and univs. - Flexible hours - Great socials

Cons

- Lack of leadership/senior presence. Lack of direction and guidance from seniors. They are more like jobs not job leaders. Therefore resulting in young engineers running around like headless chickens/ working in silos (most would seek answers google and read from textbooks). Even worse, at end of the day, no checks/review are done on the work, wouldn't be surprised to see some works end up in CROSS newsletters someday - Office is not a healthy environment to work, bad washrooms, really stuffy at times, loud like a mess hall, people often get headache - Management lack of honesty and transparency, resourcing doesn't reflect actual work load since it is done by people who doesn't do the work. No suprise - Bad support, several occurrences of IT and HR being so unresponsive that it end up ruin someone's issue/future (an intern wouldn't get an offer since they 'forgot'). Lack of quality technical training, CPDs have to be found outside of the office - Bad/inflexible promotion scheme

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Buro Happold Response
8y
Hi, thank you for your positive comments and your enthusiasm for the ‘pros’ of working at BuroHappold. We are constantly reviewing all of our internal processes and training to ensure they are transparent and fit for purpose, equipping our managers and leaders with the right skills to nurture and train the next generation of talented engineers. We have dedicated line manager and leadership development programmes as well as an Emerging Professional Programme. We appreciate your feedback.
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