KBR Acquisition Ruined a Great Company - Anonymous employee KBR Employee Review

1.0
3 May 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some of the long time line managers will fight the losing fight for the employees with how upper management is treating everyone.

Cons

Leadership: The KBR acquisition showed much of the upper management's true colors. Everyone is looking out for themselves and no one is looking out for the workers that actually run the place day in and day out. I left very early in the integration and I count my blessings daily. Pretty much my entire team has left since. HR leadership is abysmal at turns being cruel, uncommunicative, and cut throat. The people leading now have no idea how to run things and have little empathy for employees.

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Flex time within a pay month, flexible schedules, an outstanding benefits package including a 401k retirement plans with 100% match on 6% of pretax and Roth contribution elections, several investment options, personalized financial planning through fidelity, employee stock purchase program, student debt retirement savings match program, and HSA options; several health insurance options with a wide range of monthly premiums and available benefits, FSA, HSA, vision, dental (Delta Dental), tuition assistance, PTO, holidays, and much more.

Cons

No automatic/across the board annual cost of living pay adjustments, only 5.3 hours total of PTO (with milestone increases for incumbents) each pay period (no separate sick, personal, annual, vacation, etc.), only 9 paid holidays with one floating holiday, no official employee evaluations or measured expectations, many employment pros and cons are dependent on supervisor on the contract - not corporate.

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Excellent Work Life Balance, Good Salary and Benefits.

Cons

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