Bechtel Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Bechtel

Pros – Very good Quality final product company

Cons – you have someone inside, your job is guaranteed

Current Employee – been working at Bechtel full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – My managers are quick to recognize good hard work and significant effort and that is very much appreciated.
Opportunities to work overseas are abundant and they are flexible with finding family jobs as well.

Cons – The company is huge so if you're not the best of the best it's easy to get lost in the crowd.
Continuing lack of domestic job availability.

Advice to Senior Management – Bring back the option to buy shares of ownership of the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Bechtel full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – - Ability to gain travel experience and work in diverse environments.
- Highly diversified, takes challenges which none dare take, very stimulating

Cons – - Upper management does not listen to its employee’s ideas or concerns
- Takes many many many many years to be promoted within
- Bonuses are very limited and small

Advice to Senior Management – Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your employees and work together instead of against each other. We all work for the same company and want everyone to succeed. Start promoting more people from within and help train the people that you already have staffed, then to keep hiring people that don’t know the business model.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Bechtel full-time for more than a year

Pros – They match 6% of your base salary when contributing to 401k.
You will make more money than you ever thought possible.

Cons – Unfortunately, it is unlikely they will retain you after your first assignment. Every assignment is treated as a separate job. The size of the company requires you to apply for every position almost as if you are applying for a job with another job. Barely any retention unless you are hired directly to their GBU home office. All classes and benefits are only offered to those currently working at the home office. Nothing is ever offered (classes, presentations, lunch-n-learn, etc.) at a field assignment. Most of the employees are on assignment and are ignored.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Bechtel full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good pay and benefits provided.

Cons – Large, corporate, cannot work remote, not flexible, political climate. Project based employment.

Advice to Senior Management – Be more progressive, embrace technoloy, trust your talent. Improve the quality of middle managers.

– I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Bechtel full-time

Pros – Good line management
4X10's
Very little stress (deadlines come and go and no cares if missed)

Cons – Deadlines have no meaning
Very little productive work
No planning (1st 6 months here and there was no work for me to do)
Meetings that have no value
No one can agree and when they do and an agreement is reached someone will say we didn't agree to that.
People have worked here for decades and got used to doing little work and the people that want to speed work up end up doing the lifetime WTPers work for them
Schedule and cost have no priority here. Safety is supposed to be the number one priority but people still get hurt. With the sacrifices on cost and schedule, safety and quality should be great but they lack in safety and quality at WTP.

Advice to Senior Management – Fix WTP

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Bechtel full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – -Ok pay (does not keep up with industry standards)
-Great vacation time (4 weeks the day you start)
-Immediate co-workers are friendly
- 9/80 schedule (off every other Friday) with flex scheduling (can come in any time between 6:30-8:30a.m. and leave by 4:00-6:00p.m.

Cons – -Upper management does not listen to its employee’s ideas or concerns
-Must be willing to move frequently (work comes and goes ALOT)
-Takes many many many many years to be promoted within
-Bonuses are very limited and small
-No guaranteed salary (must hunt for a “job charge code”) and hope that the allow you to charge to them for the day.
-Layoffs/instability has been common for the last 4 years.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your employees and work together instead of against each other. We all work for the same company and want everyone to succeed. Start promoting more people from within and help train the people that you already have staffed, then to keep hiring people that don’t know the business model.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Bechtel full-time for more than a year

Pros – Bechtel compensates their employees well. There is a lot of room for travel. We have offices all over the country as well as all over the world, so if you don't want to be tied down to one place for too long, this is definitely the place to work for.

Cons – It can be a stressful environment and I think most of the people who work here put work over their personal life.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Bechtel full-time for more than a year

Pros – Competitive salary; good benefits; 9-day/80-hour work schedule; opportunities to relocate. Safety is a priority. Ability to work with people from all over the world.

Cons – "Old-school" rigid corporate structure with inability to be flexible. Top managers seem to receive all the perks while low to mid-range employees get nothing (typical corporate structure). Few opportunities to move within a team/project environment. All about billable hours and cost savings.

Advice to Senior Management – Learn to be flexible... especially the "lifers".

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bechtel full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Lots of room for vertical movement if you're willing to join a project (in the middle of nowhere)
Respectable starting salaries

Cons – No matter how well the company does, raises and bonuses are almost non-existent. Forget about getting training for better positions. The only way to move up is to get shipped off to a project somewhere. Bechtel expects you to put the company first in your life.

Advice to Senior Management – Instead of pretending as though you care about your employees, try actually caring. Your employees aren't idiots. You can't book record profits and tell your employees that you won't be giving raises or bonuses because business is slow. Instead of just saying that you promote training, try to actually promote training.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company