Challenging, exciting, and growing global company with solid senior executive leadership with a focus on growth - Financial Manager Balfour Beatty Employee Review

4.0
Sep 19, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Company is willing to provide you with the resources needed to succeed - funds, technology, parent-co. support. It is clearly focused on results. It has a solid emphasis on training. Company is very active in community development and relationship building. It provides a strong salary and benefits package. There are clear promotional opportunities for those putting in a strong effort with results. It does strongly encourage executives to get together and facilitates that with structure meetings and events for best-practices discussions and relationship building across the globe.

Cons

The executive leadership is a bit U.K. centric. However, Typical big-company slowness in decision-making. The company does have some challenges with cross-purposed competition among subsidiaries-business units, via acquisitions and placement of U.K. staff in all geographic enterprises.

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Cons

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1.0
Mar 26, 2026
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Pros

None, save your time and don’t apply

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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