KEO Reviews

Pros

I need to good consultant

Cons

working in High Rise Building / Big project

Advice to Management

ok

Pros

Good work community, team work, and project management capabilities

Cons

Very tight schedule for the projects

Pros

KEO is a genuine competitor to the big multinationals in the GCC and has name recognition through the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait, which is quite impressive for a family run business. KEO does get some impressive projects , colleagues are generally friendly and approachable, there is a sense of loyalty to staff by the directors (although this is eroding due to the market environment).

Cons

KEO is very top heavy with a lot of directors who draw fat salaries, and really have little impact on the direction of the company, therefore the fees have failed to adjust to the market and the mid level employees suffer in terms of pay cuts, and a "do more with less" attitude. Pay rises don't exist, its not uncommon to find really good employees on the same salary as five years previously, which saps morale as you know...

Advice to Management

The market is normalising and the glory days are over. Figure out if KEO is going to remain one of the top names or just a medium priced option. Review your management strucutres and trim the fat and stop the constant restructures. Also, your directors have little influence on the success of the company, as the market slows so do your profits, parachuting in a new saviour every six months isnt going to conjure up some...

Pros

Professional practice and High reputation

Cons

Business declined due to current market conditions

Advice to Management

Lack of Annual reviews and compensation

Pros

KEO is a great Employer with strong family values and marvelous Management

Cons

Business environment is too tough in GCC at the moment

Advice to Management

Keep up the good work #GoKEO

Pros

Salary paid on time

Cons

Top heavy upper management lacks awareness on fundamentals of design consultancy practice aspirations. Almost all decisionmakers have no technical experience and hence totally depended on technical directors - who consistently failed to deliver. Lots of self promotion to receive awards but lacked the advertised capabilities. Staff at the technical delivery side is disillusioned to see executive level managers brought...

Advice to Management

Fire all senior managers drawing fat salaries who are not professionally qualified and use this capital to bring in and sustain real professional talent that knows how to deliver quality work and still makes the company profitable. Identify and reward the hard working staff with Yearly salary increment, bonuses etc instead of only certificate every 5 years.

Pros

Salary was paid on time

Cons

Deceitful Management and Board. Puport to be a "family" company, not even close.

Advice to Management

Replace the CEO. Company is rotten from the top down.

Pros

Great teams to work with and projects

Cons

None of it if you really have the passion for the profession

Pros

I worked for almost 24 years with KEO Abdu Dhabi, as Project Manager in wastewater System Design. It's an honor to be associated with the KEO Institution and pure pleasure to be part of the KEO Family

Cons

Employee performances are not taken in to account in retaining the staff by the management.

Advice to Management

All the best, keep it up

Pros

good implementation of HR policies, established system

Cons

no salary increment and promotion system