Ballinger Reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(65 total reviews)
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Terry Steelman

54% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Ballinger has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 65 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ballinger employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, repair and maintenance industry (3.7 stars).

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65 reviews
3.0
19 Mar 2025

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Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I really enjoyed the people

Cons

Not enough feedback for me

1.0
1 Nov 2014

Horrible Family Firm

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Ballinger definitely has or had great project overall project types. they were cutting edge in the design arena and were willing to design green.

Cons

This is a hire and fire firm....Enough said? If you are single this is the firm for you.

2.0
11 Apr 2015

Architect

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent benefits. They've recently started monthly happy hours / discussions for the architecture and interiors. They paid for all of my licensing exams. Unlicensed employees are paid overtime. Flexible hours. Free breakfast the first Friday each month.

Cons

Large division between upper management and everyone else. Strong trend to hire then fire. Every year except last year they will hire in bulk (mostly interns and recent grads) when we get new big projects. Then they lay off in bulk as other big projects finish. There are lots of young interns, but not enough Project Architects who know what they're doing. They expect you to work overtime. Typically projects have unrealistic deadlines and they expect people to work overtime to finish on time. Less experienced employees will not be given the opportunity to learn about every aspect of working on a project. If you're good at rendering, you will become a favorite. But they will take advantage and you will work lots of overtime.

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