Badly managed company - Finance Environmental Division Kleinfelder Employee Review

1.0
20 Apr 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

An American global company with full engineering, architecture, science and environmental service and over 60 offices across the United States, Canada, and Australia.

Cons

Lots of favouritism between friends and US nationals, and little recognition to hard work and effort. Their projects aren't managed realistically as they low-budget them in order to get the projects and impress their clients. Once the projects are in progress the return on the investment is usually lower, which makes minimum profitability, and loses and write offs are very common. The write offs can easily be twice as high as the invoice total. Kleinfelder's objective is to acquire clients no matter how much money they lose. However, the scheme to low-budget projects that invest 100% of their production and get 35% or 50% in return is counterproductive. The company then layoffs employees and cuts off expenses including as basic as coffee, pens, and markers to somehow balance for their loses.

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5.0
28 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Gained a lot of experience in the field Thorough onboarding and training Covered a required certification process Will help immensely for my future Overall, friendly and helpful employees

Cons

6:30 a.m. start time was a tough adjustment, but I ultimately got used to it. I did cry at the end of my time there, because I knew I would miss the people.

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Thank you so much for leaving a review! We're so glad your internship experience at Kleinfelder was a positive one ... we hope you'll be able to return some day!
4.0
26 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- lovely coworkers - some really cool projects since Kleinfelder wins lots of different types of projects! thankfully i had good relationships with the project managers, but peers that don't have a long history don't have enough work flow or don't get to work on projects they want to - very caring boss - flexible work from home policy

Cons

- incredibly repetitive sometimes - inconsistent work and stress related to staying billable - drab and uninspiring workplace energy - lots of non-optional travel - anyone other than my boss and direct peers was not caring - it's all just a bit corporate and no one is really in love with what they're doing - barely got raises consistent with inflation

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