Chicago Bridge & Iron Reviews

Pros

Good Salary and annual benefits

Cons

Company getting bigger, internal quality control needs to be improve

Pros

The employees are great to work with. Good benefits, decent pay.

Cons

Management tends to not follow through with employee development.

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize the talent you have immediately. Waiting can sometimes let great minds slip away.

Pros

Paid Overtime;
No set amount of sick days;
Training Program for Recent Engineering Grads;
Relaxed Working Environment;
Global Organization with possibilities of traveling.

Cons

Some managers are not willing to allow employees to elevate their (the employees) career for the manager's own benefit;
Not many Training Opportunities;
No Career benefit in pursuing continued Education.

Advice to Senior Management

CB&I needs to improve their professional and developmental skills for their employees; Management should encourage employee support in the programs the company sponsors.

Pros

Reasonable compensation structure, good vacation policy, good work-life balance, interesting work assignments. Pleasant corporate headquarters office located in the Woodlands, Texas.

Cons

Corporate politics run rampant at this company. High level of distrust and animosity amongst senior management. Promotions and developmental opportunities given based on politics rather than performance. Many executives are arrogant and lazy, resting on their laurels.

Advice to Senior Management

Start promoting and advancing competent employees rather than those who make a career out of playing politics. Perform 360 reviews on entire executive management team and dismiss those with poor reviews.

Pros

Professional employees.
Friendly environment.
Supportive and interactive system.
Interactive global company.

Cons

Unstable work environment.
Management isn't well connected with employees.
Salary isn't attractive.

Advice to Senior Management

Make good channel with the employees and give training required for the position and for the long term growth for the employees. Salary is an important factor to be considered to make people satisfied. Open door policy is very good but more respect to others opinions is needed.

Pros

Great engineering training program, good company to start an engineering career.
Interesting projects in interesting locations.

Cons

It's who you know not what you know; inconsistent compensation packages.
In non-technical roles the company has a significant talent deficit.
Senior management is unsophisticated, does not implement management science or technology.
Company wins work by basing estimates off past failures, fails again, then assigns failure externally.
Not a learning organization, major corporate failures are taboo to discuss, even when walking right into another one.

Advice to Senior Management

Rapid growth covers up repeated mistakes but you can't grow forever. A comprehensive gap analysis is required for your middle and upper levels of management. Is it rationale to expect tradesman, construction managers, and engineers to have the ability to serve the business interests of the corporation as managers on the basis of their seniority? Will the existence of this mechanism for career progression attract and retain top management talent?

Pros

Very competitive salary, plenty of opportunity, benefits package is great in these down economic times. Global company. Travel the world.

Cons

The company is getting bigger

Advice to Senior Management

keep up the good work

Pros

Mostly good people to work with. They like to keep good employees around even when work gets slow.

Cons

Work can become monotonous at times.

Advice to Senior Management

There are a select few project leads that could try and connect with their employees a little better.

Pros

For the lever of intellect, CB&I pays fairly well. It was an easy and rewarding experience, great for low tech skilled people - a high schooler with confidence could do this job. Get on a project for the first years of your experience, you will get financial success, but eventually leave to find more challenging material.

Cons

Low technical skills needed. Achievements and good work are hardly noticed. Be prepared for nasty environments if working abroad, but high benefits. Though once you quit, have a job lined up, preferably outside the industry - they will black ball you.

Advice to Senior Management

Noticing the good work that field engineers and people of low ranks do would go great ways. The worker ants do most of the job, but managers praise themselves. Wouldn't hurt to show positive feedback from time to time.

Pros

Good pay
Good benefits
Great team that I personally worked with at our office
Good advancement opportunities
Good work/life balance when projects aren't wrapping up

Cons

CEO and upper senior management have fair to poor communication skills
A perception of "secret, back door" mishandlings of offices and staff because of the poor communication skills

Advice to Senior Management

Just be open and honest with the people you employ. You might be surprised at the amount of respect and loyalty you get from it, even when handing out bad news.