Culture. Company seemed to struggle with attempts to grow into an international firm. Unique benefits that set Kleinfelder apart, such as the annual Technical Seminar, were suspended when profits shrank in the process, and this made the company seem more impersonal. Culture also varied widely from office to office, discipline, and manager. A common response to change or better benefits included 'Kleinfelder's benefits are in alignment with similar firms." But this response kept them from being a better, much less exemplary, employer, resulting in a continued male-dominated engineering culture that seems woefully behind the times. I left for a company with better work-life balance and diversity of projects, and even took a small pay cut to do so, but the benefits were so much better and the workplace attitude/culture so improved, that it has been a relief.
