Decent Experience - Anonymous employee Balfour Beatty Employee Review

3.0
Feb 26, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great co-workers, great resources & training. Above average base salary. Excellent in-house IT department & IT manager.

Cons

20-30% of the currently employed middle & upper management is terrible. There are several managers who are running business units and teams due to their tenure (10+ years) with the company, who in all honesty, have limited experience in that team's given function. They hold their subordinate team members to standards and SOPs that they themselves can not even explain, execute or understand. Also, office drama is the worst i've seen. Some managers judge employee performance based on how much time is spent at their work station. Working in any of conference or break-out rooms (there are roughly 15 different conference/break-out rooms) is frowned upon as you are away from your desk. The cube-by-team layout works in THEORY, however, when it comes to day to day efficiency, the lack of privacy, the lack of sound reduction due to the open floor layout and having a manager within 5 feet of the subordinate team members proves faulty at best. Again, working in the break-out rooms (even if it's for a simple attempt at finding a quiet work space) is frowned upon, depending on the specific manager.

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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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