Knowledge and skills hardly count... - Associate Design Engineer II Fluor Employee Review

3.0
May 25, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Good salary. Technical expertise (in a select few). Good learning for fresh out of school engineers (if you are lucky to work with the few knowledgeable and skilled supervisors).

Cons

Most of the supervisors who have made it in the company have did it based on how much they could suck up to their supervisors. Your skills, knowledge and even the passion for engineering would be doused in a few years, as you have to learn the even more important skill of sucking up. Some of the engineers would make obvious and terrible mistakes in calculation but get away with it, and are hardly held accountable. The accountability rests with the person working on a particular task, even if that person has just taken over the task from someone else. Your career progress will depend on how much show you put on regarding the work you did, instead of the actual work you did. The GROW program, although good on paper, plays against the core concept of equality in work place, and is just a symbol of token women empowerment. Women still suffer subtle sexist remarks every now and then.

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Hi visibility projects. Rewarding experiences Competitive Pay

Cons

Sub-bar Project Management team. Condescending at times. Entitled. Sense of superiority. Confusing Hierarchical Structure and chain of reporting. Two managers. Administrative Organizational Unit Manager and a project manager. You report to both. Not flexible at the implementation of latest and most robust design software. Extremely cautious about the implementation of AI, sacrificing productivity and cutting edge competitiveness. Extreme focus on employees training on the companies policies and procedures, but not on the technical development of employees. Do not internally promote, rather they hire from outside for vacant higher positions. Remote workers are considered second class citizens. Not equal to those who work from the office, despite their credentials and pedigrees.

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