Not Recommend - Mech Engineer Integral Group Employee Review

Great work life balance options

They laid off over half the staff in the time I was there

Location, dog friendly, no one pays attention to what you are doing

Primarily for the offices on the West Coast, especially Oakland. The three big ones here are: financial mismanagement, project mismanagement, and lack of accountability. Financial mismanagement: No one monitors hours spent on a project until it’s way too late. Write-downs are common. This is across offices. Project mismanagement: There is no quality control on projects and things are sent out the door without any senior oversight leading to massive problems later. I’ve heard of other companies making very good margins on projects compared to IG, but even with relatively beefy fees, projects often just break even or worse. All the responsibility for project execution is left to junior engineers who have, in turn, left in droves. Most of the great minds who were there went I started have left long ago. Over the time I was there, over 100 people have gone or come and gone. Lack of accountability: Senior management sees their only role to be ‘thought leaders’. Even when senior people tank projects, there are no repercussions. The CEO was recently changed, but many people received very cushy jobs/titles in exchange for a lot of boot-licking, as opposed to providing value, although what is valued at IG is big talk. Accountability and diligence has no place. The company had long suffered from a huge lack of focus. Ideas are brought to the table, after a few weeks those ideas are tossed out and things go back to how they were.