Pros
Good benefits Good people Good variety of work Finally getting good technology (skype, surface hubs, touchscreen computers, iPhones, etc) in major office locations
Cons
Losing touch with employees fast Management doesn't communicate real information to employees at all. It's more high level and no one really knows how to apply it to their day to day work. It's been coming across for years that management doesn't have a clear goal and can't seem to provide clear goals to individual departments. Too many unimportant departments with self made scope of work. Departments are confusing and causing a lot of interdepartmental fighting. Seems like departments were created to give friends of management opportunities in management, rather than an actual need for the department. No focus on engineering improvement. Says they are operations focused, but it feels more like Project Management, Project Controls & IT focused. Employees are confused that project management = engineering. Construction and Land departments get away with so much monitary waste. Our IT structure is almost a 1:1 ratio of IT employees to project employees. Why do we have so much IT? From an employee on the project side, I barely get support from IT. What do they do? Thought Williams was a pipeline company. Becoming more of a status focused company (management more important) instead of focusing on employees and their ideas, feedback, development and happiness. Company is changing into a fear based workplace. Managers are focused on the negative and petty things vs showing appreciation towards the employees that do good work and focusing on positives. Used to be a wonderful place to work. Now, many are wanting to jump ship.
