Fluor Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Fluor full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – $$$$, Can do good if someone is watching out for you. Can be good with the right lead who cares.

Cons – Get too specialized and pidgeon holed.. Low raises. You can go to a competitor and make more $. Its very big and numbers focused company.

Advice to Senior Management – Try to weed out the bad people and promote the good. Try to take care of the people who travel and not the ones who never leave the office.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Fluor full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – -typical benefits and perks to working at a good large company. This involves the following:
   -higher pay (and paid OT)
   -better benefits
   -better work environment
   -abundant training/ development opportunities
   -on-site fitness center and recreation fields
   -every other Friday is a non-working Friday
   -and more

Cons – -large company bureaucracy
-lots of employees means more layoffs in economic downturns (typical for the industry)

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Fluor full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – I do not have any comment

Cons – Too many manager,not enough employee to do the work

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Fluor full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – High priority is placed on employee development. A great place to work if you are a self motivated individual. If not, also a great place to work. Lots of resources for development whether it is technical or non technical. Lots of opportunity to advance your career.

Cons – Work location is not as central as I would prefer. Commute is long.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Fluor

Pros – Challanges you to become the professional you want to be

Cons – there are no cons for this company

Advice to Senior Management – more social functions would be nice

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Fluor as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – ~ Safety is #1 with Fluor, and they mean it. Safety takes time but safety saves lives, fingers and money in the long run. Fluor knows this and they have one of the best safety programs I have seen.
~ Team Work is strongly encouraged at Fluor. Talented people are abundant and almost all of them are very willing to help you learn the ropes if you are new. We all helped to carry each other through difficult times and in Afghanistan there were plenty of difficult times.
~ The people at Fluor are genuine and real. I have personal friends today which I met at Fluor jobs. Some of them are in the States and some of them are from Bosnia, Hungary and other places. Most of the Fluor employees I encountered were great. During morning meetings, we often discussed the importance of our family and personal lives as well as the job.
~The money was good. That had a lot to do with working in a War Zone. Time off for R&R was very fair and we received some compensation to help balance things out.
~ The management in the field was excellent. They were demanding but fair. What more can you ask for? Management was also very understanding and pitched in where they could. Of the managers I worked for, if the heat came down they stood up for us and protected us form the fire.
~ We all rode the same transportation. While in Greenville, SC training, Fluor told us that while in Afghanistan the lowest employee rode in the same transportation as the highest ranking executive. They told us that if one specific helicopter was safe enough for us, it was safe enough for the highest ranking Fluor Executive....... and they told the truth! I once rode on the same helicopter the Country Manager, who is the top man in charge of Fluor at Afghanistan. Same helicopter, same risk.
~ Fluor has great training and people who will assist you in on the job training if you ask for it.
~ Fluor has never lied to me. Ever.
~ Just Do The Right Thing!

Cons – ~ Not many "Cons" other than I was laid off. The lay off was not Fluor's fault or my own, it was just simply something that had to be done and my number finally came up. I was laid off in good standing because of a Reduction In Force across Afghanistan as the US is beginning to pull out.
~ I wish Fluor could have offered me another opportunity in Afghanistan or any other location. I have been trying to get back for over 10 months now but no luck. It would be great if Fluor took more action re-hiring former employees who were in good standing with the company.
~ Upper Management seemed to be on the chopping block if things went wrong and sometimes personalty conflicts resulted in good managers getting fired. After watching several of our managers get sent home, people became wary of applying for any management position. The joke among employees was, "If you want to get fired, just apply for management".

Advice to Senior Management – ~ Make a serious attempt to re-hire good employees who were laid off in good standing due to no fault of their own. Task a couple of recruiters with the task of re-hiring good people who want to come back.
~ Do not allow personality conflicts to lead to firing someone you just do not like.
~ Hire me back immediately!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Fluor full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Excellent work environment, Team-work, values, everyone is passionate to work in Fluor

Cons – Not applicable to Fluor. No Cons if someone is looking for best employer, Fluor is one

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Fluor full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – 1) Opportunity for growth
2) Lots of training opportunities available; including CBT
3) Many opportunities to travel within US and overseas
4) Competitive salaries and great benefits (although getting less and less)
5) Interesting work
6) Great people to work with

Cons – 1) In the bad times, not much security for anyone
2) Sometimes you have to go where the work is to keep your job
3) Not enough sharing of work between offices. Many times, when one office is going through a down turn and another is booming, they will hire new employees instead of sharing work within US offices.

Advice to Senior Management – Perform more oversight into the health of all offices. Mandate work sharing between offices to keep the valuable empoyees working. Place a much bigger emphasis on keeping the good talent. We, as a company, train way too many people who use this added talent to the benefit of our competitors.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Fluor

Pros – Fluor gives me the opprotunity to travel all over the world

Cons – Fluor needs to take care of the expats more

Current Employee – been working at Fluor full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great company to work for

Cons – High stakes projects might not be for everyone

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend