Kleinfelder reviews

3.2

47% would recommend to a friend

(525 total reviews)
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55% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Kleinfelder has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 525 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Kleinfelder employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).

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525 reviews
2.0
Mar 26, 2017

Great place to learn, not to stay.

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Pros

Some of the best connections of my career were made at Kleinfelder. I worked with great people that are very talented. I got to work on a lot of different projects, and I greatly expanded my knowledge and experience base.

Cons

Most of the people I worked with have moved on to better opportunities because the company is floundering and not making a profit. Why? I honestly don't know. The top-heavy management structure has always been clueless and opaque, and we never got satisfying explanations from them. All I do know is that the employees are being squeezed in an effort to turn a profit. First overtime and comp time was taken away, then a series of office closures, layoffs, poor raises, etc. And top of all that, the employee share of the cost of health benefits keeps going up every year. So while I can't tell you why Kleinfelder is struggling to a make a profit, I can tell you that it is trying to make a profit by treating employees like line items on a cost sheet.

3.0
Mar 15, 2017
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Pros

Easy going, nice people, they claim to encourage cross training. They claim to train you. None of that ever came true for me.

Cons

Not a lot of follow thru on a promise. No guaranteed hours and you will get a lot of unpaid hours due to requirements of the job. Winter layoffs even though they say they don't. The work will end up not being enough hours to live on. Inspections are biased to please the paying clients. Hesitant to put in positions that you should be put in even with plenty of experience and degrees. Clickish,

2.0
Mar 5, 2017

Incompetent managers

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good working history with one large oil producer.

Cons

Management not so good. Struggling company with literally one single client. No cultures. People are allowed to speak their own languages at work which is annoying and unprofessional. The managers at Kleinfelder Hood are mostly not good fits for their roles. They lack educational credentials and technical skills required to run the teams.

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