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Layne Christensen

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Layne Christensen Reviews

3.2

49% would recommend to a friend

(101 total reviews)

David A.B. Brown

59% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

Layne Christensen has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 101 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Layne Christensen 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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101 reviews
1.0
10 Mar 2015

Let's get real for once

Recommend
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Pros

Beautiful view of Lake Woodlands from some of the most expensive office space in town. Office space we cannot afford.

Cons

I'm not big on posting reviews especially of companies. You seem to get only the extreme or outlier positions. Either the company is as warm and comforting as Grandma's kitchen or it's an uncaring, awful place to be. Here are some facts. I joined over a year and a half ago and not a single assurance made to me has come to pass. There is no work/life balance here, no pay raises and no bonuses just vague assurances things will get better. No explanation of exactly how they'll get better or when. The company is on fire and executive management is clueless about what to do. After a 7 month search we finally found a new CEO. The guy seems nice but so does everyone at the outset. He comes from the software industry apparently because no one in the energy or construction industries was interested. Fortunately, one of his first acts was to let the Co-COOs go. That's at least one step in the right direction. He replaces the Chairman who was acting as interim CEO although flying in from "The Vineyard" for a taxing 3 day work week hardly seems like much of a commitment to a company in financial duress. We now have 3 CEOs on the payroll, the last two that got fired and now the new guy. We lose money operationally at an alarming rate and no one seems willing to address the operational shortfalls. Our vendors are worried, our customers are not happy with our poor performance and our lenders are bound to be in a panic. After watching this horror show unfold I now understand why the CFO, CAO, Chief Compliance Officer, Risk Manager, VP Finance, two (yes two) SVPs of HR and almost the entire international accounting staff all resigned in utter disgust. Everyone in my group is looking to bail out now that the new year has arrived. Only 2 divisions make any money; the others are disasters. Just look at the segment reporting in the 10Q/K if you don't believe me. Mostly absent or clueless operations managers continue to sign up disastrous fixed price contracts that everyone knows they can't perform and which invariably lose money. Please stop this insanity. Sell the company and try to salvage something before it's too late.

1.0
19 Jul 2016
Recommend
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Pros

There are no pros to work for this company, read all of the reviews and do yourself a favor and heed the warnings. As a Senior Mechanical Designer they will expect you to work numerous hours of overtime without any compensation at all. Their benefits package is no more than them providing you insurance they purchased off the market place. Their 401k plan was so weak I could not bring myself to put any of my money into it. After about three months they did a review and basically told me I was going fast enough even though they knew I did not have a lot of Inventor software experience, so I quit at that point and surprisingly they keep me another 9 months, they are so desperate. I personally knew better than to work for this company but the lure of an easy commute overpowered my reasoning, please do not make the same mistake.

Cons

I worked for a group complete idiots that sit around trying to figure out how to tell their managers that their project is running late because of the designer is to slow, I don't know about that, they purchased new computers that were a complete step down from what I started with. I even spec'd out what type of computers they should buy but they had the another designer do the same and went with what he thought, little or no thought went into selecting the appropriate computers as recommended by Autodesk. The bottom line is this company is failing and doesn't have the funds in place to even upgrade their computers. The computer they bought for me allowed a command about every 2-3 minutes while I sat there staring at the windows blue circle. I was let go 6 days before I was to go on vacation to see my brothers gravestone and my mother after her fight with breast cancer so they really don't care about you at all just what you can do for them. Once again please heed my warning this company will suck the life out of yo and not think twice about it.

1.0
16 Dec 2015

Watched it go downhill

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Worked there for 18 years. When it first went public there were lots of opportunities to get involved in new technologies and build new divisions.

Cons

Forgot about it's customers. Executives and legal department were out of touch with what the company really did. Always saw new attorneys, auditors and accountants being hired, but never top-notch engineers.

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