Highly not recommended - Senior Engineer Ghafari Associates Employee Review

Throughout my years at Ghafari the cons have increased. Improvements are not expected because the owners only make decisions that increase company profits by sacrificing their employees life and benefits. Details below: - Low salaries that never substantially increase. - Not a career, barely a job. Higher positions are reserved for family and friends. If you are hard working, motivated, well educated and groomed, you might get a pat on the back. - The lowest paid holidays possible, something like 5 or 6 days a year. Most businesses in Dearborn offer more than 11 days. - A lot of worthless benefits including a useless insurance policy and a10% 401k match. I am glad my wife's insurance covered us because Ghafari's insurance was expensive and had like $5000 deductibles with very limited usages. It is not suitable for an individual with a family like mine. - Very poor work/life balance. While I was at Ghafari I barely had any time to spend with my wife and kids. The company forced us to work late during weekdays and weekends because they couldn't hire enough people to do the work. To keep a manager happy you need to have 50-70 hours of work every week on your time sheet. - Too many presidents, vice presidents, and managers. The managers are very incompetent and their sole role is to make unreasonable promises to clients and harass architects/engineers to finish jobs. Presidents and vice presidents are mainly involved in attending social events, being present/asleep at meetings, taking credit for work they haven't done, and getting their pictures taken and posted on the company's Facebook page. - Lots of useless emails to look at every day. These include congratulating emails to the Ghafari family members for their exploits and for being promoted to new positions at Ghafari and its sister company G-tech, new hires in the marketing department or departments that you have never heard of, and emails from HR and the owners asking you to give a portion of your paycheck in donations to a charity of their choice. I strongly do not recommend this place. The experience you might get from working on some of their big projects is not worth the pain of working there. Ghafari is very well falsely advertised by its HR department. The only true goal of this company is to enrich its owners. Any other good that comes out of this place is accidental.