Mortenson Reviews

Large projects are meat grinders with little accountability to leadership and turnover. They often take on high risk projects and often loose money on them. During my time there they only paid bonuses 1 out of 4 years due to projects of this nature. Burnout among employees is high. Mentoring is non existent. It's all too often that you get placed on projects with leaders that are not experienced in the industry. I have seen it all too often in my tenure that people are placed into positions without proper guidance and support. MEP is overworked and under appreciated.

One thing that differentiated my tenure at Mortenson from my current employer is that there seemed to be a highly competitive (at times cut-throat) atmosphere that tended to breed a lot of "people drama" and unneeded stress. Couple this with a management philosophy that fosters "high level thinkers" and you start to see signs of dysfunction with an imbalance between "strategists/thinkers" and "doers". If you are like most people and find reward in hard (tangible) work and being in integral part of a team, expect to encounter some frustration. There is also an unusually high level of management oversight and controls. This could be viewed as a good thing in the fact that management is highly involved in all levels of decision making (thus individual accountability is limited), but can be frustrating if you like autonomy or are looking for rapid career advancement, or just need to get something out the door to a client. Trying to procure the simplest items for day to day operations involves an extremely involved corporate process. Controls/software/hardware was antiquated, but improvements were coming. Soft perks cycled with margins, but compared to my current employer, were somewhat limited.