For a high potential start, disappointing finish. - Principal Engineer Fluor Employee Review

2.0
Aug 22, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Jobs are large and last a long time. You can make a good living. Salary and benefits above average for market in Oil & Gas. International, with large uplifts was available till downturn and

Cons

Limited training for senior staff. Age sensitive Management ceiling for the non-political, promote non-challenging. Outsourcing international: Indian and Philippine offices now 1-1 in productivity. Client awareness of cost per unit of work parity with non-US offices threatens high salary jobs in US offices and international sites. Buy back employees when needed, excessively use LOA and then terminate if no high return projects won.

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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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