Flexible great employer - Anonymous employee Buro Happold Employee Review

4.0
Feb 7, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

BuroHappold has a lovely atmosphere and the leadership and everyone here are genuinely nice people who see the people who work here as individuals rather than resources. The partners are accessible and managers are approachable. The company does fantastic exciting work and encourages us to stretch ourselves and follow what we love to do. I have had several exciting opportunities here to travel and do new projects that really interested me. I feel the people here care about my career and what it means to me.

Cons

The pay can be not as high as other companies, but the flexibility over working hours and the like make up for that. They need to work on having better standard processes that management are seen to support as it can feel at times that I don't know what good looks like. Their managers need better training in what it means to be a manager and the impact they have on the motivation of people. It can also be a bit of an "old boys club" at times which gets a bit irritating, who you know not what you know, but I hope this is changing as they are putting in place new processes for better project management.

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Buro Happold Response
9y
Hello Thank you for taking the time to write a review. We aim to be a transparent business and our leaders do try and be accessible and available to all. It's great to hear you relish opportunities and enjoy being challenged, we strive to take on complex projects to stretch our employees to support their continuous development. We are looking at implementing further structure to support new managers to enable them to be successful leaders. We are also always trying to increase our internal communications so that our all our employees can understand the future of BuroHappold and the key role in which they play in the business. We value your suggestions therefore. We hope you have a great career with us. The BuroHappold Team

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Thank you for sharing your feedback. We’re really pleased to hear you value our flexible working and the diversity of our people. We take all comments seriously. Your feedback is hugely valuable, thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review.
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