Black & Veatch Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Black & Veatch full-time

Pros – Great place to advance your Career and learn new things.

Ability to work in a lot of locations!

Cons – Have to work hard to get promotions.

Goofy performance Managment system.

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

Current Employee – been working at Black & Veatch full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – The regional offices feel like small companies with the support and technical expertise of a corporation

Cons – Things definitely move slowly, including requests for promotions and salary reviews. It's a little disheartening to see your efforts apparently go unnoticed.

Advice to Senior Management – Start taking your staff seriously and reward them accordingly. Be proactive about rewarding underpaid talent.

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

Current Employee – been working at Black & Veatch full-time

Pros – global company of the right size

Cons – conservative company. too much golden boy mentaility that promotes some

Current Employee – been working at Black & Veatch full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Good work in water industry some very good people.

Cons – Poor senior management in Australia.
Very US centric.

Advice to Senior Management – Change the management in Aus.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Black & Veatch full-time

Pros – Coworkers, cafeteria, upper management, willingness to share between teams to help and understand processes and systems

Cons – Having to work with too many systems. Company should invest in a shared system.

Advice to Senior Management – Man hours wasted looking in too many systems that are slow and outdated

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Black & Veatch full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Large company with lots of opportunities to pursue your preferences.
I feel very secure in my employment.
I've become trusted and valued in my area of expertise.

Cons – Great place to work if they offer you a full time position. Avoid contract work offers, as they have no intention of keeping you.

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

Former Employee – worked at Black & Veatch full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Flexibility in career development, support for continuing education, high quality talent to learn from and work with, good support and career potential for strong performers

Cons – Extremely time intensive for management-related work, need to work without minimal direction even when starting out, high turnover in certain groups doing management-related work, poor performers are left to struggle

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

Current Employee – been working at Black & Veatch full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Company is starting to catch up with IT. Benefits are pretty good, pay is okay. Company has a long history and is doing very well.

Cons – Communication is sometimes missing. Performance reviews are worthless and nearly everyone is rated at the "satisfactory performance" level, regardless of their work, so they end up with small raises.

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

Current Employee – been working at Black & Veatch full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great place to work. I love the people i work with.
Great place to learn new technologies and apply that knowledge to your work.

Cons – There is not a lot of outside work social activities.

Advice to Senior Management – More team building outside the work activities.

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

Former Employee – worked at Black & Veatch

Pros – Large, diverse company with growth potential.

Cons – Way too corporate and too many engineers

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend