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Toxic work environment. Choose another firm to work for. - Anonymous employee Reiss Engineering Employee Review

1.0
Jan 1, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

If you don’t value your friends and family then this job is the perfect job for you because many times it is expected that you work between 55 and 65 hours a week and get paid for 40 hours. Also, sometimes you’ll get a free lunch because they're provided at the frequent mandatory lunch meetings. Mandatory lunch meetings are meetings that upper management does not want to negatively affect your billable hours. So many times your lunch is taken away from you.

Cons

Very toxic work environment. Very incompetent and nasty supervisors and management. Most of the management is only out for themselves and when a project goes well they will take all the credit. However if a project goes south management will look to blame any of the junior staff. The junior staff will usually get in trouble even though they are the ones who did all the real work and stayed the late hours. I agree with the review that an employee wrote on July 28, 2015 – “Management seems to think that they can throw a body (anybody) at a task and manage their way to success.” Even if it is an intern or junior engineer. The result ends up being that the intern or junior engineer, even though they asked for help and weren’t provided any, they still get a demerit and sometimes terminated. If you work here be very cautious who you work with because there are several nasty manipulative managers that will not bat an eye before they burn you if it might help them look good. Lot of deception, lying and backstabbing.

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5.0
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Pros

Supportive, Open Communication, Helpful, Great Place to Grow

Cons

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5.0
Nov 17, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great people that are knowledgeable and experts in water and wastewater treatment and master planning, they stay on the cutting edge of design for a smaller firm, you're not just a number to them, fun and engaging work, freedom to win work with full company support, good business savvy, quick to respond to recommended changes and input from all staff levels. The owner is a phenomenal person (he is my role model) and actively engaged with clients and staff which is a rare find. Plan to stay in touch with the good people at Reiss for many years to come. They now have 10 owners and look to be expanding their owner base which is a great step towards a long term healthy firm that will stay privately owned and benefit the staff and have a direct impact on loyalty to the firm. Oh and excellent pay and bonuses, they definitely show respect to employees, and it is everyone at all levels so the profits are shared very well and the hard work is rewarded.

Cons

Consulting engineering requires some long hours to meet deadlines and keep clients happy but Reiss definitely tried to maintain and cultivate a good work life balance as much as as possible. They had a well organized structure to try to balance the demands of consulting.

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