Pros
Good experience. There are lots of different types of jobs to work on from mixed use, tenant improvements, commercial, and residential projects. The company is very bottom heavy so the majority of the employees are very young (just out of college) and the minority are older senior level employees. Because of the bottom heavy layout, young engineers get to do basically everything on a job from attending meetings, to putting together construction documents, and putting together proposals. There are a lot of nice people at the company and overall is is a good place to learn and grow.
Cons
Average to below average salaries and benefits. Management tries to give engineers a 3.5% raise every year or no raise at all. It doesn't matter how hard you work at KPFF, you won't be rewarded for it. Engineers who stay here for more then a couple years end up losing money since they give their employees such little raises. The company doesn't do anything to distinguish itself from other companies. Their is no future here for engineers unless you want to stay and be underpaid. To be fair to management, they don't appear to be paid extremely well either. Senior management and senior employees live modestly. So I think it is more of a company wide issue where everyone at the company is underpaid. Engineers that work for the city and local municipalities appear to be paid better and on top of it they get a pension. At KPFF, there isn't much of a retirement plan. They offer a 401K but they don't match.
