Kleinfelder reviews

3.2

47% would recommend to a friend

(525 total reviews)
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Louis Armstrong

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
4.0
Mar 27, 2014
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Pros

Lots of interesting and challenging project and get hand on experience with all sorts of projects

Cons

cannot retain good management peoples, have seen a lot of technical people leaving. Management only looks at your utilization. One proposal a week would destroy your utilization down to like 80% which is like 15% away from your goal.

3.0
Feb 20, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

If you are in an office with key senior leaders and you have good mentors, it's a great company to work for. Lots of opportunity for advancement, excellent large projects.

Cons

If you are in an out-of-the-way office and/or working for a boss who doesn't advocate for you, it can be a dead-end for junior employees. The company recently discontinued overtime pay for all but field technicians - you'll be salaried with "opportunities for bonuses" that rarely make up for what the overtime would have provided.

1.0
Oct 5, 2013

Was great early in my career....

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It is a fiercely privately held company with the majority held by the employees.

Cons

The management used to listen to suggestions from the rank-and-file, but now they don't. The management used to reward the rank-and-file with spot bonuses, but more recently bonuses seem to be only given to Project Managers and above. To become a member of the Direct Shareholder group, one is nominated and later voted into the group by its existing membership... membership is NOT based on merit, though management often tries to tell the rank-and-file that it is. Historically, the company seems to prefer demoting bad senior managers in hope that they just up and quit on their own, rather than just firing the manager out right. Training for the rank-and-file is often difficult to obtain...company is known to cancel said training if schedule becomes to busy; and when employee later gets penalized for not completing those training goals when annual reviews are conducted.

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