Skanska reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(1,124 total reviews)
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Anders Danielsson

90% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

Skanska has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,124 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Skanska 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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1.0
Aug 10, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Relationships with coworkers on the team.

Cons

Management and HR does not have your best interest in mind. You will be overworked with little to no resources when people go on medical leave, are terminated, and are expected to keep up with business demand. They will squeeze you to the last drop hoping you quit if not they will work quickly to terminate you. I was approved to go on medical leave but they terminated me 3 days before having my knee surgery done. I will need to look for other ways to cover my healthcare costs because they chose to terminate me because I didn't order equipment on time. Although I had a final warning prior to this for things they technically failed to do on their end, they don't care and will do whatever it takes to pin you to it and create an elaborate narrative to give you the boot. The company is disgusting overall with a lot of favoritism involved. You will need to fall in line and be a yes man no matter what. Their Skanska values are meaningless, once you are there long enough, you will see they don't stick to any of their core values. It's no surprise this company has been involved in many criminal offenses in the past and still stick to their ways. You are a number on a sheet that is easily replaceable. You most need to drive your car to many places which for the IRS expense rate won't cover long term wear and continuing rising costs. Management doesn't care about their team, they pretend very well that they do. They just sold an entire division of IT to another company DXC technologies and threw everyone away like they were trash. Expecting everyone to be masters with a new system that has just changed with no guidance and horrendous training.

4.0
Oct 29, 2019

Great company; nightmare project.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Skanska is perhaps the most progressive and forward-thinking company within the CM/GC space. Globally they offer many benefits and programs which are unfortunately rare in the industry, such as employee ownership, great training, and inter-office exchange programs. The Portland office has accessible management, a great staff, and a variety of projects throughout the community. Skanska is also the most committed to worker safety in the industry.

Cons

The Portland office generally performs well and supports its employees, but the largest project supporting semiconductor R&D operations in Hillsboro does not. This project operates on an island from other Skanska Portland projects, limiting access to the programs that make Skanska great. The client demands are not buffered by executive management, leading to burnout and a constant overtime expectation among the staff with no options to rotate out to projects away from this client. Most of the processes in use at this project are unique to this client, which further silos the project staff. Unless you specifically enjoy working long hours in semiconductor manufacturing under constant deadline sprints with a complicated matrix of vaguely defined success metrics, do not work for the semiconductor client in Hillsboro. Any other Skanska project is excellent.

3.0
Jun 15, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Been here 5 years and have a proven myself as a leader

Cons

Upper management does not value people below them, not transparent, no mentoring, no training, no team building. They talk of work life balance but really don’t believe in it. Don’t hire enough people to get a good flow in a project.

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