Great company for managers not engineers/designers - Associate Design Engineer Fluor Employee Review

3.0
21 Jun 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Great co-workers, nice facilities, fun and beneficial charity events and outreach programs. Most senior engineering and design staff members are great and willing to teach as long as you are willing to ask.

Cons

After 2012 no raises unless promoted, not even cost of living raises. Overtime required constantly, often for free. Management completely disconnected from staff supporting project. No clue what obstacles are faced on a day to day basis, and when raised to their attention you get an email sent if lucky, most times you just get told to do more work on top of normal deliverables, and technical issues often go ignored by management who just want to meet payment milestones and look good to client regardless of quality of work or whether it is done correctly or to code if it is going to affect schedule. Going "above and beyond" on projects, even value saving ideas saving millions of dollars on project are rewarded with small gift cards instead of project performance based incentives they promise when getting hired as direct employee. Work will keep getting piled on and on until you push back. A lesson I learned the hard way.

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5.0
25 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Very transparent, room to grow.

Cons

can be political, not what you know but who you know.

3.0
6 Feb 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good for starting and ending a career in engineering — solid training and plenty of software available. Good benefits and WLB.

Cons

Most projects are PreFEED, so lots of generic work, and they tend to overhire for these projects. It’s hard to make it to the middle ranks here because of the overhiring and layoff on contract loss cycle. The 980 schedule is actually meant to be a 10-hr day, as they began to emphasize the importance of taking lunch. TOWP and sick days are lumped together and earned on an accrued basis, so vacation days are valuable in the beginning. You can be paid your vacation days at the end, too, when your salary is higher… the consequence is that people come in sick all the time.

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