Worley reviews

Advertises itself as a major engineering firm but actually is a project company that only hires and retains employees so long as their clients have specific project needs. Not well diversified, so if their client ends the project and/or decides that they need to cut back on project staff, the employees likely have no recourse except to seek work elsewhere. Despite requiring those initially hired to receive a lengthy background check (which curiously did not include requesting any personal references), the company will cut staff at the drop of a hat without any severance. Alternately, they offer what they term a "company convenience leave of absence" prior to separation which normally is one month of unpaid notice. Like many project outfits, the company organization is relatively flat with limited training and minimal discretion among work assigned. An "Engineer V" may be assigned the same work as an "Engineer I". Depending on the client, projects often follow an arcane structure that is unnecessarily tedious to follow, although the company was still in process of consummating operations from Jacobs' ECR division at the time of my departure. I personally didn't take away much of experiential value, which was disappointing. Benefit options are fairly extensive but average and expensive.

The company recently acquired Jacobs ECR business and looks like they have no idea in how to manage the business. The benefits are so bad that it is shameful to be compared with other organizations. Travel policy is even worst, it seams like you are working for a very cheap organization. Houston office is full of senior management personnel (there are several parallel organizations working within the organization) with no responsibilities or accountability and they are all charging their time to G&A. But for the real workforce, if you dont have a project number to charge you will be sent home regardless of how good you are. Back log and margin numbers were being forged to show that everything is good but the reality is different. Please be very careful and read and review all of their benefits and policies before applying for any position for this company.