Langan Engineering and Environmental Services Reviews

Pros

The people are friendly and hard working

Cons

There are no cons about working here

Pros

Good projects, good managers, opportunity to learn

Cons

Long hours, tough work-life balance

Pros

Great environment for recent grads Supportive upper management

Cons

Seems to be little room for advancement without pursuing higher education (master's, PHD, etc.)

Pros

fast paced company, place to learn

Cons

they place you on site for a long time

Pros

The job paid well and gave me insights into the field of survey

Cons

My work responsibilities were very repetitive, and worked in all weather conditions

Pros

Good reptutaion on the east coast.

Cons

Dysfunctional management. New hires are grossly overworked and underpaid. No real chance of career advancement within a reasonable timeframe (5-7 years).

Pros

There are a few good project managers at Langan that are reasonable, know what it is like to be in the field, and when things go wrong or are delayed, they take responsibility and work with the team to find a solution. The time-off bank is a good system to allow overtime / vacation.

Cons

The work as a staff engineer is incredibly redundant, repetitive, and brainless. Many times you find yourself recording data that a computer is already recording, as more or less a human insurance policy in case something goes wrong so the company has a record to bolster their argument in the finger-pointing circus that ensues. Managers across Langan are wildly inconsistent, some request pages long daily write ups that are redundant, repetitive, meaningless work. Managers also request field engineers to record data / measurements / observations that are already recorded or meaningless just to justify the cost of the field engineer being out there to the client. Many many times I found that managers were "over budget" for a project that you were assigned to. This meant that the field engineer couldn't charge their work to a particular job and had to charge hours for "overhead" because of poor planning on the manager's side, or were given ridiculous hour constraints to work within. There is very little feeling of adding value to projects. There is no reward structure for working tough jobs (some jobs run 12 hours shifts from 7PM to 7AM, 6 days a week), but compensation remains the same. Engineers stuck on these jobs are left out to dry by management.

Pros

Amazing array of projects. Very smart people to work with.

Cons

Better financial benefits would help.