Mid-Level Professionals - Stay Far Away!!! - Anonymous employee Kleinfelder Employee Review

1.0
22 Oct 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The company allows plenty of flexibility to balance work/life needs and opportunities to attend conferences and industry events. Lots of multi-disciplined projects to work on. This is a great place to start out of college but if you're there after 2-5 years, you're making a career mistake.

Cons

This company has terrible employee salary returns. No straight overtime for anything over 40 hours and the annual salaries are below-average for this type of work. Benefits are average - not good or bad. 2% match on 401k is average to below average for the industry. Promotions and raises are slow to come by and since you can't bill for anything over 40 hours, there's zero motivation to do anything above the bare minimum for your job. Employee turnover is extremely high, and those that do stay are usually the ones who are complacent in their job. The company has way too many clients and individual project managers and not enough staff to support all of the work. For a design firm, there is very little technical expertise in the company.

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5.0
28 May 2026
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Pros

Gained a lot of experience in the field Thorough onboarding and training Covered a required certification process Will help immensely for my future Overall, friendly and helpful employees

Cons

6:30 a.m. start time was a tough adjustment, but I ultimately got used to it. I did cry at the end of my time there, because I knew I would miss the people.

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Thank you so much for leaving a review! We're so glad your internship experience at Kleinfelder was a positive one ... we hope you'll be able to return some day!
4.0
26 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- lovely coworkers - some really cool projects since Kleinfelder wins lots of different types of projects! thankfully i had good relationships with the project managers, but peers that don't have a long history don't have enough work flow or don't get to work on projects they want to - very caring boss - flexible work from home policy

Cons

- incredibly repetitive sometimes - inconsistent work and stress related to staying billable - drab and uninspiring workplace energy - lots of non-optional travel - anyone other than my boss and direct peers was not caring - it's all just a bit corporate and no one is really in love with what they're doing - barely got raises consistent with inflation

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