Big Company Attitude - Document Controller Worley Employee Review

3.0
7 Sept 2016
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Pros

Opportunities to learn. Management seemed keen to know what your aspirations were. Leads were encouraged to provide on the job training.

Cons

Big company and even bigger organizational charts. Your manager was often in a separate location, with only your lead supervising. Individuals took advantage of this and often abused the lack of oversight. Some would go shopping all day and still fill 8 hours in their timesheet, others spent the day chatting, or at the nearby coffee shop. Company was completely inflexible with chronic illnesses and would not allow timesheets less than 40 hours. If you ran out of vacation or sick time, you were expected to make up the time you were absent on evenings or weekends. Absolutely no exceptions, even with a doctors note. If you could not comply with salaried hours you were told that they no longer have project hours to sustain your employment. They would rather you go on paid disability than accommodate an illness.

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5.0
7 May 2026
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Pros

Massive Project Scale: Worley handles multibillion dollar capital projects. If you want exposure to massive EPC work, this is the place. You get to lead complex, large scale infrastructure and energy developments that actually move the needle globally. Technical Bench Strength: As a PM, you are only as good as your technical team. Worley has a incredibly deep roster of subject matter experts across civil, structural, mechanical, and piping disciplines. You will have serious engineering talent backing up your project delivery. The Energy Pivot: They are heavily transitioning toward sustainability and green energy infrastructure. It is a fantastic place to build your resume in sustainable engineering while still utilizing traditional oil and gas, offshore, or pipeline expertise. Global Mobility: Because they operate worldwide, there is excellent opportunity to travel or relocate for different assignments if that is something you want to pursue. Structured Delivery Systems: They have highly mature stage gate delivery processes. You are never flying blind; they have the rigorous systems in place to manage risk, procurement, environmental compliance, and contract administration effectively.

Cons

The Project Cycle Risk: Because Worley operates as a massive EPC firm, your job security is often directly tied to your current billable project. When a large scale project winds down, you need to have your next landing spot already lined up. If the company pipeline is dry, you can end up on the bench, and prolonged bench time always carries the risk of layoffs. The Constant Hustle for the Next Win: To avoid that bench time and ensure seamless work for their teams when a project ends, project managers and leadership have to be incredibly aggressive with proposals and bidding. It creates a high pressure environment where you are often executing your current massive project while simultaneously burning the midnight oil to win the next contract just to keep your engineers and staff utilized.

2.0
5 June 2026
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Pros

Great to get more experience in different areas

Cons

Completely project based. They don’t let you change on overhead even for 1 hr. It means if you can’t change on the project, they don’t pay you. So many people are full time but they don’t receive the full salary. No one tells you that when they want to hire you. There is no work/life balance

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