Quickly gone downhill - Anonymous employee Magnolia River Employee Review

2.0
4 Oct 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great place for work life balance and awesome benefits that include health, vision, 401K, dental, Rx and PTO

Cons

Company has moved to inexperienced poor decision makers who are narcissist,, egotistical and don't care about their employees. I have observed sexism and unfair treatment of women, discrimination to minorities, favoritism to friends. Those behaviors make you wonder if their is equal pay to women and minorities. A complete disregard for senior employees with experience. If you have grey hair, you are disrespected because of your knowledge and experience. The company website displays the seven dwarfs of white men in charge. At one time the leadership was a very diverse group of women and minorities. Now the company's leadership is a good ole boy system with inexperience but the owner loves them because they enjoy his good ole boy stories and suck up to him. If you want to succeed, don't have a different opinion or recommendation

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5.0
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Pros

It’s a good job to learn. I appreciate everyone being so accessible and wanting/pushing you to succeed. This goes for project design, continuing education, studying for FE/PE, etc.

Cons

I don’t have any cons honestly. The only thing I can say is I wish I was paid a bit more considering I had all the preferred qualifications like the FE and some engineering experience.

2.0
15 Apr 2026
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Pros

- Good experience for brand new inspectors. -Some of the management is great. -Great technical support from IT department. - Year round employment, they’re a big organization and can usually send you somewhere if work is dried up.

Cons

-Low pay -Benefits are mid range basic coverage nothing special. - Management expects you to travel but the company clearly doesn’t want to pay for it. (I was stationed over 800 miles from my home and was only 6 days per diem a week) - Per diem is based on days worked but they’ll send you hundreds of miles from your starting post. - Some of the management is terrible. - If you aren’t a friend to management you’re treated differently - Magnolia services clients well, but gives up too much power to the contractor. When you’re in field, the clients will steam roll you for stopping contractors from breaking policy if it slows production. (This includes safety policies) - You will not get a raise.

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