Bechtel Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Bechtel full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – The programme provides real responsibility at an early career stage and a wide variety of experience across the Bechtel GBUs. The people are some of the best in class and the graduate scheme provides a great grounding in the fundamentals of the industry.

Cons – After the graduate scheme is complete there is not a clear career path. Career progression particularly in the Oil and Gas GBU is very slow and to get onto the leadership track you need to invest a .lot of effort in networking.

Advice to Senior Management – Provide a clearer career path for employees after employees complete the graduate scheme.

Former Employee – worked at Bechtel full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – smart people passionate about what they do
amazing projects that have an impact
excellent discipline in project management
strong corporate culture, ethics and values

Cons – long, long, long hours
work comes first - before health, family and friends
need to move with the projects

Advice to Senior Management – realise that people need to take care of their health and spend time with their family

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Bechtel full-time for more than a year

Pros – Staff
Location
Benefits
Employee Recognition of Service Awards

Cons – HR
Salaries
Some higher ups believe they have carte blanch... and are allowed to behave any way they want

Advice to Senior Management – Listen more to staff input

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Bechtel

Pros – Well known company, a huge plus in a resume, if you ever worked at Bechtel.
Truly equal opportunities employee.

Cons – Below average pay
Majority of jobs are in Asia and Middle East, which makes you relocate every so often, which can also be an advantage for some employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Good job overall!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bechtel

Pros – Provide a lot of opportunities for professional development
a good open door policy to senior management
a lot of opportunities all over the world
management supported rotation program
structured processes and procedures (not rigid)

Cons – long assignment durations
relatively small raises and bonuses for good performance
long working hours sometimes
processes and procedures involve a lot of paperwork and could be very bureaucratic

Advice to Senior Management – provide more transparency to all employees
make it easier to change assignments between global business units
compensate employees based on their performance rather than based on their nationanlities

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bechtel

Pros – Great place to work as you'll get involved in "signature projects" well known worldwide.

If you want to explore the world you can push for this due to their large portafolio of overseas assignments.

Good Benefits - health insurance and pension plans are genereous.

Cons – Employee support departments - namely Payroll, HR, etc - do not provide a good service towards basic and elementary stuff that may jeopardise employee satisfaction with the company. They often make mistakes and are reluctant to amend them, regardless that this may cost you a lot of time and effort to rectify the situation.

Annual bonuses are just symbolic.

Advice to Senior Management – Instead of doing sweet talk about how wonderful and bright is in the future within the company, you should be more realistic and express if something wrong is happening.

Be more sincere and objective in providing constructive feedback.

Current Employee – been working at Bechtel full-time

Pros – Employee Satisfaction,
Flexible Timings,
Great Learning Experience

Cons – No Cons, You can join this company without any second Thopught

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bechtel full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Bechtel cares its employees like family members

Cons – I never felt any thing bad about bechtel

Advice to Senior Management – they are doing good.. so no commets

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Bechtel full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good salary and opportunities to move up the corporate ladder. Bechtel gives you the opportunity to work on some of the world’s biggest and most complex engineering and construction projects.

Cons – Moving up in the company often requires you to relocate to remote projects worldwide, having to sacrifice your family and friends.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Bechtel full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good Experience, good training. balanced work environment.

Cons – a lot of politics, watch your back. If your not part of the gang your out.

Advice to Senior Management – stop worrying about the quarter century club members, and start bay attention to the new generations

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend