KBR Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

Work life balance favors employee Stimulating environment to work in Communication with higher management is there when needed

Cons

Unfavorable pay when initially negotiated salary

Pros

Depending on where you sit in the office the culture can be really nice. Management is very supportive of continuing education efforts and skill acquisition. The managers are available to help and they work really hard to foster a culture of mentorship and helpfulness. There is flex time, comp time and vacation buy up and the vacation time starts out at like 3.5 work weeks a year. You'll rarely work more than 40 hours in a week so balancing life and work is super easy.

Cons

There are no windows in the engineering area. There's no breakroom. There's no place to eat lunch aside from your desk or a conference table in front of all the managers offices. There's no sense of pride in the way the office is put together. It provides the bare minimum creature comforts (fridge, sink, microwave, cubicles, that's it) and was done for bare minimum cost and it shows. Employees frequently bring their own tools or do prototyping projects at home because management doesn't want to spend money to put in an actual prototyping space. IT doesn't give the engineers computers that are powerful enough to run the software they need to do their jobs. When they do, the computers are so bogged down with add-ons that they still don't work properly. There's no real formal training on how things work around the office. The benefits don't seem to be a priority for upper management. We were instructed to "shop around" for medical expenses before incurring them when they changed our medical plan to an HDHP from a PPO. A few offices still have a PPO option but it's location specific. The projects are hit or miss as to whether they'll be interesting or mind numbingly dull. You could get a really fast paced design project or you could get a project that goes on for years examining the grammatical minutia of technical manuals, it's a crapshoot. It's not really the company's fault but it's still a negative aspect of working here.

Pros

Compensation, benefits, coworkers, remote work.

Cons

work life balance (poor) Career Opportunities Diversity & Inclusion Senior Management

Pros

They have a great work life balance

Cons

Pay isn't that high due to price of oil

Pros

Work life balance and job satisfaction is great.

Cons

Flow of work coming in

Pros

KBR is good about having flex time and a positive work/family life balance.

Cons

Minimal raises even when the company is doing well and have an above average to outstanding performance review.

Pros

Believe in work life balance and recognize how productive employees can be working from home.

Cons

Have not found any so far

Pros

Has a good work life balance

Cons

They can pay lower than others

Pros

Beautiful location at South Bank with views of Brisbane city from the office

Cons

Terrible environment to work in and the senior leadership team contribute to a toxic environment where there is limited career development or growth. There is also no value of work/life balance or flexible work hours/working from home - especially if you’re in a more junior position.

Pros

work life balance was great

Cons

upper management needs to care more about their employees