Worley reviews

3.8

79% would recommend to a friend

(3,326 total reviews)
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Chris Ashton

82% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Worley has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 3,326 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Worley employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energie, Bergbau, Versorgungswirtschaft industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Oct 18, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits, both salary, insurance and retirement accounts are above average in both the industry and the nation. If the 9/80 schedule was consistent, that would be pro as well. Unfortunately it is not stable.

Cons

The entire company is broken, I have never worked for a company so lacking in consistency, process controls, operating procedures, communication protocol, internal education or training, work/life balance, budgetary oversight, leadership or company direction. It's very disheartening to hear so many people be physically unhappy with their job, and just feel they are making a paycheck until something better comes along, yet management is completely unconcerned with the high amount of turnover or low morale systemic throughout. We're all widgets, plugged in wherever a warm body is needed, regardless of project need, expertise, quality, growth or client benefit. What is the point in working for a company that is just shoveling out deliverables without thought to ethics, quality, value engineering or future development - of the world they so loudly tout as being so important, and their employees? And it has very little to do with cashflow, although that is always a factor, the fundamental elements of employee training, retention, career growth, company growth and vision is completely nonexistent. As one said, we are all drones, treated that way and now represented that way as there is no other way to function, you either deal with it or you move on, there is no changing it. And if you have any talent, you do move on, quickly, before your personal ideals are trampled beneath the feet of work completion and billability.

2.0
Feb 7, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Large engineering firm. If you're looking to get certified (engineer or technologist) you'll get the experience to get that certification. Good company for a young engineer/technologist looking to get experience. 2. If you're an unmotivated individual employee, you will thrive here. Generally, they want "yes" people to do their menial chargeable work. Enjoy spending 8 hours a day collecting a pay check? WorleyParsons is for you. 3. Salaries aren't bad as they do follow the APEGGA salary surveys. However, during the downturn, the majority of the employees took pay cuts while the head of the Canadian entity got a 16% increase in salary.

Cons

If you do decide to work here, go into the company with a set of goals of what you want out of the company. 1. They do not care for their people. Though it's a "differentiator" in their corporate fluff statements, they do not exhibit it at all. 2. Money is everything to them. Changeability is everything. If you are useless to them in any way, they will let you go. Since changeability is everything, any job that one competent employee could do, would be split between three employees for the sake of changeability. 3. Innovation is not required. Why do things quicker when clients will pay for the slower method? 4. They provide "value" engineering, NOT "value-added" engineering. What does that mean? Old computers and dirty offices. 5. Middle management is useless. Most of them are good engineers but they are poor managers.

1.0
Nov 7, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Excellent pay & comp. Good brand for your CV if you want to stay in the industry.

Cons

Chaotic approach to the energy transition. An excellent and highly competent workforce led by an incompetent and unqualified layer of leadership for this company size. Worley has no idea about what to do about the energy transition. How can they go from EPCm multi billion$ hydrocarbon plants to delivering low value and very simple renewable assets? They are hemorrhaging good people and chewing up a lot of shareholder cash trying to solve the problem, but no way to solve it without a gutsy diversification move, and current leadership does not have the caliber to deliver that. Lots of pressure to install women and minorities to leadership coming from the board & shareholders (which is a laudable goal), but the execution of this has led to even worse and more acute competency issues. People at EVP level cannot even understand a simple cash flow statement. It's really bad - the worst I've ever seen in my 20yr career.

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