Great company culture, but long and stressful days - Site Engineer Balfour Beatty Employee Review

4.0
May 15, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great company culture here at BB

Cons

Long days and can be stressful

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Balfour Beatty Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We’re really pleased to hear that you value the positive culture at Balfour Beatty - creating an inclusive, supportive environment is a key priority for us. We also appreciate your honest comments regarding workload and stress. We do recognise that some roles can be demanding at times. Supporting our people’s wellbeing and helping teams to maintain a healthy work/life balance is incredibly important to us. We continue to embed business-wide programmes to that focus on how we achieve and maintain this long-term - these include health and wellbeing strategy, featuring enhanced proactive psychological health management, wellbeing support, access to mental health resources and flexible working where possible. Ensuring all employees feel recognised, valued and supported is fundamental to how we operate, and we’re continuously working with our teams and leadership to reinforce this. Thank you again for your feedback - it helps us to keep improving and make Balfour Beatty an even better place to work.

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Pros

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Cons

If you value your sanity, integrity, or basic respect as an employee, stay far away from this company. I was in a management role and was routinely instructed to write up technicians daily—often for unclear or inconsistent reasons. Upper management would tell me one thing behind closed doors (like requiring Saturday work), then completely contradict that in front of employees, making me look incompetent and dishonest. The double standards and manipulation don’t stop there. I was required to work on a day I had scheduled PTO, only to be forced to still use my PTO anyway. That pretty much sums up how little they respect employees’ time or boundaries. Leadership is painfully unprofessional. My direct supervisor avoids accountability entirely—no performance reviews, no feedback, no communication. Instead, they sit silently while someone else (who isn’t even your manager) delivers write-ups. No eye contact, no explanation, no leadership. The most concerning part is how calculated their actions feel. I was written up without valid cause, only to be told the next day that it disqualified me from receiving a retention bonus. Conveniently, this all happened the same month retention bonuses were being paid out. At the same time, I had been directed to write up my entire team. It’s hard not to see a pattern of targeting employees to save the company money. Morale is nonexistent. Trust is nonexistent. This is not just a poorly run company—it’s a toxic environment where employees are set up to fail and leadership operates without transparency or integrity. Avoid at all costs.

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