Proceed with caution - Project Engineer Sundt Employee Review

1.0
Jun 7, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The ESOP and FTO are very forward thinking and modern-date benefits

Cons

The review I submit is limited to the building group. It is said that a work culture is defined by the worst behavior it’s willing to tolerate. Sundt- building group lives up to this point. Sundt prides itself by judging your work ethic and commitment to the company by the sacrifices you make for a project. If You are working in the field You will be deemed expendable during a crisis or pandemic. Lastly they regard your loyalty and commitment with loving eyes if this comes at the expense of sacrificing your Saturday’s & Sunday’s, time with family, and working 12 hours per day. Your success & longevity will be dictated by your very first project manager you’re assigned to, and you can be a PM in this company and not being up-to-date with technology and work-flows. The project can have demands and aspects your project manager and superintendent have never seen or managed yet they will impose standards and expectations they themselves will have no clue as to how complete. More often than not Your Project manager will be grossly under-trained , or put in from another position they failed at within the Sundt Organization or another project. You can ask your PM or project superintendent for help, warn and indicate of an upcoming and dire situation, and the job-site admin level will remain the same. Swastikas can be found on the jobsite but nothing will be done about it . Don’t bother escalating to senior management or HR. If the project is bringing in millions of dollars to drive their company’s operating income, or has been written down as a lost cause project administration management will remain unscathed. Not every project will come with a full-time safety representative. This will further stress and realign the burden to your job-site project administration (PE, PM, PS, FE, FS) on top of the goal of delivering a project. The building division obtains work by building project administration with a ratio of 1 person for every 10 million dollars; however they blatantly neglect the complexity of the project, and completeness of design and construction drawings. Training regardless of position and experience isn’t uniform across each project. There’s a high turnover rate and the effort they made (or lack there-of) to improve new employee on-boarding and training is centralized to LinkedIn learning without any content, substance, or project standards. As far as diversity, the bar is set low. It’s the usual homophobic and transphobic rhetoric onpar with the construction industry. If you’re a person of color, suppress all ethnic indicators as it will be subject to ridicule and basis for isolation; it was observed that those who suppress their ethnicity have longevity within the company. When there is a setback or impact on the job-site, someone will get fired but it won’t be the one deserving of it. Additionally, you can be fired for asking for help. Project directors, managers, and superintendents are masters at creating fictional scapegoats out of the least-deserving. Lastly, if you’re an employee battling cancer or if the loved-one of an employee is seriously- ill, the employee is almost guaranteed to be terminated. Be sure to to keep this secretive should you or a love one become severely ill The silver linings of this company are the safety and VDC departments. The safety initiatives continue to improve the company. The building group would improve itself if it operated as organized and dignified as its corporate safety department Lastly, its VDC department is amazing. It will uncover how broken & incomplete the design yet is underfunded on every project.

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5.0
May 23, 2026
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Pros

The ESOP plan is 2nd to none in the industry, family/people centric culture.

Cons

They do a lot of JVs where Sundt is the minority partner. So you on those projects you use all of the other contractor's systems.

2.0
Mar 5, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Above average benefits package. - Met some of the best, most genuine people here who are truly passionate about the work they do. I walked away with many lifelong friends and colleagues.

Cons

- Many managers and supervisors are supportive and genuinely care about their teams. However, the experience can vary DRAMATICALLY depending on who you report to. If you end up under poor leadership, there will be little to no protection or support. There are no standardized, formal performance evaluations or documentation, which means employees can be terminated or disciplined seemingly without cause. While this may be standard practice in right-to-work states, it feels inconsistent with the company’s messaging about prioritizing employee well-being. - They claim to be ahead of the industry in supporting women in construction, but I know of several extremely talented women who have left the organization or were pushed out after negative experiences with leadership and mistreatment. - The company previously invested heavily in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, but many of those efforts were majorly scaled back after the (U.S. government) administration change, including the removal of DEI messaging from the website. It feels like DEI was only important to the company when it benefitted business, which was quite hurtful to many employees of diverse backgrounds. - The craft workforce is often described as the backbone of the company (which is 100% true), and many leaders do demonstrate genuine respect for field teams. However, execs and senior leaders often speak about craftspeople primarily in terms of numbers and productivity rather than as people. This also happens with "lower level" office employees too. It can be quite dehumanizing, as these are typically the employees who are actually building and creating tangible products.

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