Don't work for the Auckland office, horrible company... - Engineer Worley Employee Review

- Horrible work environment, particularly for technical engineers. The Auckland office essentially is a satellite office run from the main New Plymouth office. Bunch of clowns in New Plymouth who essentially know nothing about the Auckland business calling the shots. - The Auckland office is filled to the brim with incompetent middle-managers who don't do anything and are unhelpful in every way. Sit around setting up pointless meetings all day interrupting your ability to get the job done. Deliberately underpricing and under-scoping jobs to win them, then put enormous pressure on you as the design engineer to work free overtime hours to make up for it. Most of them will throw you under the bus just to a client just to save their own skins when something goes wrong (which happens a lot). - Poor work/life balance, regularly pulling 60 hour weeks as a design engineer, especially in the Auckland office. If you have a life outside of work, say goodbye to it. - There is the expectation you are responsible for your own billable hours. If you're unbillable apparently, it's somehow your fault (and not the fault of the guy who hired you) and redundancy will come fast for you. - Worley takes the typical big consulting model of cost savings by sending work overseas and dials it up to a thousand. The company has an offshore centre in India and as you can pretty much guess, a lot of managers have their KPIs based on how much work is sent to India. The only issue is India work is extremely low quality, this means you as the design engineer will often be staying up late to 1am, 2am on MS teams calls with the India office trying to sort out their dog-water drawings. The company has had a few projects go to absolute s**t simply because of the straight incompetency of the Indian team and often zero budget left to fix any issues. Often times management will put the blame of the project going bad onto you as well which is extremely unfair. - Callous and uncaring attitude from middle to upper management, all who only seem to care about sitting around and collecting their paycheck. Extremely unhelpful in every way, and will not hesitate to point the finger at you if the project goes awry. - Everything is about money. Zero appreciation for the technical aspects at all. All the talks and meetings are about budgets, billability etc. etc. and very little technical meetings and seminars. Firm is basically what happens when you let a bunch of MBAs run rampant in an engineering firm.