What is the salary like at Kimley-Horn?

Great pay, great culture, crazy good benefits

Required overtime without pay, at least 45 hours a week total

Really great pay and benefits, good people overall. Most people are friendly and well educated.

You will work 60-70, occasionally 80 hours a week, due to lack of employee retention. Upper level management will work against you if you bring up concerns. The time utilization system is not based off of a 2080 hour year, it is based on 2400 hours, which forces overtime. If you take vacation, you will have to make up the time. Managers will ask you not to charge time to projects in order to maintain budgets. This is against policy, but it will not be enforced.

Great pay, interesting work and great team.

Culture can be a bit much sometimes.

Good benefits and competitive pay

The pros come at the price of your freedom and work life balance

Great opportunities. Great pay, and great benefits. Just keep advocating for yourself and you can be the master of your own destiny.

Stressful sometimes when the budget for projects are low

Good culture and competitive salary

They hired to many people during the pandemia and they are now cutting people rapidly.

* Drinking from the fire hose results in you learning everything MUCH faster than you would anywhere else -- from data analysis, project management, the inner workings of consulting, client-facing interaction, etc. Literally everything * The best projects -- Kimley-Horn works on a lot of the most high-profile projects in the nation * Excellent coworkers -- In a sink-or-swim environment you'll be surrounded by high-caliber people you can learn a lot from and look up to * Retirement, healthcare, and stock -- rumor has it Kimley-Horn's privately held stocks appreciate at ~20% per year which is CRAZY high. On top of that, they match your salary + bonus at 18% (ish, it's funny math). You won't find better anywhere else (read caveats below) * Bonuses -- bonuses here are a lot higher than other companies, but you'll also work like 20% more than at any other company and the bonuses won't be 20% of your salary until you're a level 5 or higher usually

* The Usual -- everyone says it. 96% client-billable goal for the year but that's out of 40hrs/wk*52wks/yr; once you take all your PTO and holidays your goal is actually ~106% of each 40-hour week you're at work. Crazy high goals, but you likely know that already. * Analysts are expendable -- if you are anything less than a level 5 or above, you cannot become remotely "unfireable" no matter how much they actually need you (which is crazy). And if someone whose been at the firm a long time or is a level 5 or above wants you gone there's really nothing you can do. Even if you're the only one in the region or at the firm who knows how to do something, doesn't matter a bit. * No Rules -- or rather the rules are whatever your team's management decide. They have an employee handbook which details a lot of things, including the WFH policy (4 days per month) and how your timesheets should look if you work while on PTO (you take less PTO) but if your managers don't like that, their say goes. * HR serves practice builders -- usually HR serves the company, but at Kimley-Horn they serve your team's leaders. This goes along with the "no rules" point, but if you tell HR you'd like to follow the rules and your team leaders disagree you'll probably just get fired. * Good luck getting your 18% retirement contribution -- that 18% is nice but they have a looooong vesting schedule, if you stay less than 2 years (could mean 1 year 364 days) you keep 0% instead of 18%. Each year after that you keep 20% more of their contribution. Also they don't start contributing until your second year. * Good luck becoming a shareholder -- the shareholders at Kimley-Horn are an elite group of people (think your level 6-7 or above people) who have been at the firm a minimum of like 10-15 years. It's extremely difficult to become one, so unless you plan on staying a long time just imagine shareholders don't exist.

- 18% 401k match (see below) - end of year bonus more than made up for the lack of overtime pay - red envelope bonuses throughout the year - projects were generally interesting, there is an opportunity to find something you like working on

- 401k match is great except it takes 6 years to vest, 2 years to even begin vesting, average tenure is way less than 6 years according to LinkedIn - work life balance sucks, you will be making up a lot of OT hours if you take any kind of vacation, attend any training (even the mandatory ones), or become sick - lots of training available but are essentially punished for going to them, you will fall behind your utilization goal - company culture is subpar, people base their personality off how many hours they work, have seen people brag about staying late to get submittals in (I am not exaggerating and this is why I think it could be a good place to work for a workaholic type.), even during the firmwide presentations people will often joke about "burnout" in the mentimeter polls - felt like the quality of work pushed out by certain PMs were subpar because deadlines were tight or someone was worried that we were charging too much time to a project - many of the mid/upper level employees came from other firms, I did not see a lot of "homegrown" talent Even with all the extra money and goodies they throw at employees, I still did not believe working here was worth the added stress. KH just wasn't for me and that is OK!

Good pay, bonuses, light remote flexibility

Long hours, expectations to get work done no matter the hour

Friendly environment, reasonable overtime, good pay, good benefits, stable employment

Several projects at once, expected overtime