Michael Baker International Reviews

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Some of the clients can be challenging

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Outdated office space, no bonuses

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Balance of work life and family. Budget oriented.

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Sadly, Michael Baker is going down. I lost count of the number of upper management changes over the past year! Often they fire one 6 figure salary and replace it with two new 6 figure salaries. I have never seen anyone below mid level management receive a bonus, and we have had many many record profit years. The new trend seems to be a desire of upper management to get rid of all loyal employees who have been there longer than 10 years. It’s sad. There were many years that those same employees stuck it out and stayed even when things were bad and they had other opportunities. Employee loyalty has no value to the current management of the week. Management pats itself on the back and floats out of the door at 4:30 everyday and settles into their shiny new Lexus and Mercedes. They forget that the grunts are those who pay for their pretty cars and new in-ground pools. They forget that the clients are buying the expertise and talent of the grunts. Management, good luck keeping your pretty perks when there are no grunts left to actually produce the construction documents!

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No bonus structure or acolades for working hard. Only way to get a decent raise is to threaten to leave.

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No incentives. Very poor upper management and leadership. Profits all go to the Board.

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Corporate culture is kill the comradery of the old RBF. Many of the experienced staff is leaving and they are hiring young inexperience people on the cheep

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The operation if growing very fast

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The intentions of the executives at the C-level are to create a culture of excellence. However, the fruits of that labor will likely not make it down to the worker bees. Uncertain how long the company will remain privately held.

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There's little to no company culture. Baker has acquired several smaller firms over the years and there is no meaningful connection across the company. Pay and benefits are average for the industry, nothing special to entice people into sticking around long-term. Small annual raises (2-3% average per employee). No annual bonuses. Severely reduced the employee referral bonus and professional certification bonus. Took away company-issued cell phones. Weak tuition reimbursement. Eliminated unlimited sick days and then pooled sick and vacation days into a single PTO pot, meaning everyone comes to work sick now because they don't want to use PTO. Baker has been slowly stripping away the benefits that made RBF a good company to work for and has turned it into just another consulting company.