Michels reviews

3.4

59% would recommend to a friend

(294 total reviews)

Pat Michels

79% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Michels has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 294 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Michels 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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294 reviews
2.0
Mar 27, 2015

Michels is a large corporation that grew too fast for their own good.

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Pros

Always have work to do. A cost of living raise is common every year. Health and 401k benefits are well above normal. As far as co-workers and majority of direct managers it is great family type atmosphere.

Cons

Employees are stuck in there ways and do not do well with change of the growing company making work life stressful and unorganized. Senior management have the mentality of telling their employees to jump and their employees should respond how high.Nothing is ever good enough. Everyone wants tasks done yesterday the day you are made aware of a task, unrealistic fast pace environment. Pay is low-mid range for corporate employees. Vacation is generally prorated first calendar year of 2 weeks. First full calendar year is 1 week and Second full calendar year is 2 weeks. However, the hand book states this is based on individual job offers. There are not enough employees to get a job done in a time frame needed.

2.0
Oct 29, 2025

Beware of senior management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some interesting projects to gain experience

Cons

Inexperienced executives are not open to good ideas and see the people who generated them as a threat rather than an asset. Specific to Michels Trenchless. Some senior management personnel are not deserving of their position as they dont have much executive experience and try to make up for this through coercive tactics and will stifel you if they don't like you. The company went through a big reorganization so some leaders were in the right place at the right time, non merit based placements.  It would be better if these people were confident enough to have a discussion with you to your face rather than play games and try to get their way via backdoor means. Avoid if you want to grow a career and not have to constantly look over your shoulder in case you are too smart for these "executives".

2.0
Sep 8, 2025

Unorganized Chaos

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Pros

Any travel is 100% paid and arranged for you. Great benefits

Cons

This company spends more time having meetings than anything. The ridiculousness of the upper management popularity contest is childish. They don't pay project coordinators their worth and lie during interviews. You are disposable at this company, unless you part of the cool kids. Then you can write your own ticket.

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