Laing O'Rourke Reviews
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120 Ratings
Pros
"Good pay and benefits, very respectful" (in 16 reviews)
"Company great with great people" (in 10 reviews)
Cons
"Long hours sometimes affecting the work/life ballance" (in 45 reviews)
"work/life balance not as promised" (in 18 reviews)
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- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
good training. Would recommend the school and college leavers scheme
Cons
better compensation can be found elsewhere
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Good people Good salary Work life balance
Cons
Far office site condition Large company promotion might be hard
- Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
- Great balance work/life. - Management is open to give feedback to you, and they are empatic. - Management is open to new ideas, and you can see them implemented.
Cons
- Management is open to give feedback to you, when you request it, not when supposedly the bi-annual meetings take place for the purpose of career development. - They insist they support you on the education, however, when the time comes, they don't support you at all.
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Very health and safety orientated on sites. Wages paid each week on time. Good apprenticeship programme.
Cons
Poor organisational and communication skills sometimes. Perhaps turning up to a new site and the supervisor was never informed you were supposed to be there that day.
- Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
-Good opportunities for advancement -Good salaries and excellent benefits - Major capital projects to develop management skills -International presence - Some of the employees and management are world class
Cons
-Old school management ideology inability to adapt to indviduals - Managment expects individuals to work long hours in order to make up for lack of resource - Work environment can be toxic at times management tolerates toxic individuals - Many good managers leave due to the toxic environment - Took 25% of salary during the first 4 months of pandemic and never paid it back to the staff in the upswing after
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Lots of training and use of cutting edge technologies Proponents of off-site building techniques
Cons
Can be a bit unfocused on non-core specialist activities Management can be a bit clique-y
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
company is not likely to go out of business
Cons
no training to allow you to progress your career no promotion prospects
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Large and complicated international projects in UK and overseas
Cons
A slightly confused structure and corporate culture
- Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Pros
Good benefits and salary, interesting projects and good training structure
Cons
Could be more opportunity to gain further development through progressing in the company.
- Current Employee, more than 8 years★★★★★
Pros
Large enough to have good opportunities but not so large you could get lost like other employers. Manage performance well so you never feel like you're carrying your share of the load whilst others aren't
Cons
Like all large contractor's, travel expected, hours to get the job done can be long but this looks to be getting challenged post covid to embrace hybrid working
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