Knowledge and skills hardly count... - Associate Design Engineer II Fluor Employee Review

3.0
May 25, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Good salary. Technical expertise (in a select few). Good learning for fresh out of school engineers (if you are lucky to work with the few knowledgeable and skilled supervisors).

Cons

Most of the supervisors who have made it in the company have did it based on how much they could suck up to their supervisors. Your skills, knowledge and even the passion for engineering would be doused in a few years, as you have to learn the even more important skill of sucking up. Some of the engineers would make obvious and terrible mistakes in calculation but get away with it, and are hardly held accountable. The accountability rests with the person working on a particular task, even if that person has just taken over the task from someone else. Your career progress will depend on how much show you put on regarding the work you did, instead of the actual work you did. The GROW program, although good on paper, plays against the core concept of equality in work place, and is just a symbol of token women empowerment. Women still suffer subtle sexist remarks every now and then.

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Pros

Very transparent, room to grow.

Cons

can be political, not what you know but who you know.

3.0
Feb 6, 2026
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Pros

Good for starting and ending a career in engineering — solid training and plenty of software available. Good benefits and WLB.

Cons

Most projects are PreFEED, so lots of generic work, and they tend to overhire for these projects. It’s hard to make it to the middle ranks here because of the overhiring and layoff on contract loss cycle. The 980 schedule is actually meant to be a 10-hr day, as they began to emphasize the importance of taking lunch. TOWP and sick days are lumped together and earned on an accrued basis, so vacation days are valuable in the beginning. You can be paid your vacation days at the end, too, when your salary is higher… the consequence is that people come in sick all the time.

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