KBR Employee Reviews
Out of 142 KBR employee reviews, 74% were positive. The remaining 26% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping KBR improve their work culture. The Engineering team, with 90% positive reviews, reports the best experience at KBR compared to all other departments at the company.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
What do you like best about the leadership team?
Good and innovative, value people
Transparent and provide opportunities for growth. Leadership team is easily approachable
Their empathy and willingness to try new ideas
They execute well and keep work coming.
they are accessable and friendly
Review from Engineering Dept
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Our leadership has gone far beyond authority to enforce rules and restrictions of their own making to include on an off post restrictions. Even ability to eat in dinning facilities. Its is like working in an unorganized dictatorship.
Toxic management and leadership traits. Low level of trust between employees and management.
Understanding the organization and how it really works.
Listening to rank-and-file employees. The world has moved on from the year 2009. Stop listening to yes-men cosplaying as technical experts and start paying attention to the industry.
The company is full of micromanagers and they get even promoted for their micromanagement. Top performers are leaving for the micromanagement. Managers do not have any technical knowledge to advise their people for career growth.
What is the best part about your compensation package?
Lawyer services can save a lot of money on legal fees
The 401k match is good
Overall, it is a good pay.
The ability to work flexible hours per month, flextime.
I like the life insurance
Review from Engineering Dept
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Better 401k match, better discount on employee stock purchase plan, lower insurance premium
Not a competitive salary in the market
Review from Engineering Dept
I believe that management is failing myself and my team members. I would like a different immediate supervisor.
they need to match the pay to other organizations
Promotionsare nepotistic and based around how well you play the game of government contracting. If somebody's been doing the same thing for 15 years then they aren't a viable technical resource and probably don't deserve a larger salary than somebody that bothers to stay modern.
What are some of the best things about your team?
Smart, dedicated, hard working employees
meetings are sat up virtually and attendees are committed to the time for discussing the agenda.
My coworkers are amazing, very divers they bring alot of experiance from all walks of life but i fear they are looking for other means of employment due to our management here.
They are experts in their fields
Review from Engineering Dept
Very understanding and helpful. Like a family.
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Coworkers were inexperienced and overwhelmed.
My team members are fine, lateral team members are maliciously reporting exaggerated complaints from myself and my team members. Low level of trust.
Learn to educate yourself. Read documentation and develop good technical problem-solving skills. Asking a teammate when you immediately run into a problem is not good form. StackOverflow shouldn't be your end-all.
Managers need training and they need to weed out poor performers
Coworkers have no motivation to work.
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Everyone is aligned to be on the same team with the same goal
Safety culture and to they teach to be upgraded
Review from Engineering Dept
No harm or threating of termination. always they are looking for alternatives.
The culture of safety, the programs that are available and flex work.
Sustainability is taking on increasing focus within KBR. But how they apply the term is very broad - from "is your career path sustainable" to "is the way we dispose of batteries, recyclables, or waste sustainable". It's exciting and fun to be a part of.
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Put the managers in check, or remove them and replace them with someone who has better experiance dealing with employees. Treat us like adults, and not ignorant children who are mass punished. Alot of us are veterans who left the military because of treatment like this.
Management has gotten comfortable and believes that they are untouchable.
A more thorough way to make employees accountable for the lack of ethics and integrity.
management need to focus on quality, qualified staff and not just butts in seats
Integrity, employee empowerment, grooming, inclusion and diversity
What did you like most about the interview process?
It was very laid back and friendly
Review from Engineering Dept
The interview was fair, the questions were mostly work related.
Thought I met a great manager but after working 1 week I found he was a liar and a good ol boy
They hire anybody with a pulse that they can get by the government gatekeepers. It's a practical shoe-in for anybody with a high-school education.
Diversity on the interview panel
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
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What makes you most happy at work?
Selling customers on new business
environment, events, flexible timing, management support.
Ability to perform at my best, the way we interact with each other.
I like making an impact!
Empowered to execute the mission given
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Again, unethical behavior taints the entire corporation while mgmt and leadership look the other way.
Micromanagement, micromanagement, micromanagement, micromanagement, micromanagement
The wrong direction starts from the top.
What do you like best about your company?
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
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