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What is the best part of working at the company?
Going to different location and working with co-workers to complete a job order. Mostly the people.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Going down manholes and sometimes dangerous manholes, identifying cables in the holes that were old, weathered and illegible and having a time limit to complete the order. Also, the management, Supervisors and Team leaders were not very helpful and always looking for reasons to find  out what you are doing wrong.in stead of working with you through a tough time. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Our office was at another location. An office warehouse that contained vehicles and equipment for the work we did.

I was being m ok natured by my supervisor and noticed that I was lacking in my abilities but I stead of finding out that something was wrong with me he wrote me up and was on probation for 3 months. Before the three months I was called into the office and was termjnated.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Came in and reported to our supervisor and assigned a job. We were assigned in teams according to the job, I was alway working in a team of two or more. Went out using company trucks, filled with gas as needed to go to the jobsite. Work our area using our equipment and complete as much as we can. Take lunch as usual, one hour. Try to finish locate and if not come back the next day or more, as dictated by the size of the job. Finish and input data acquired at the jobsite on to a program on the tablet. Drive back to the office and  finish inputting data. Get in your vehicle and drive home.

The company used to have a family type environment that slowly started to degrade.  Managers are presented with the task of recruiting and maintaining employees.  But corporate will not compromise on salary or acknowledgement of work performed.  High turnover rate due to no work-life balance, workload and low pay.
Little to no training is provided by corporate to advance in your field of industry.  Corporate management does little to assist regional offices in anything.  But requests work assistance with little to no acknowledgement of efforts to assist them with project deadlines.
Probably one of the worst IT departments in the industry.  High turnover rate due to poor management styles.  Good support technicians are pushed out to cater to management ego.  Probably should have gotten rid of the manager and kept the good technicians.
HR runs the company worse than some of the large corporations with 10k+ employees.
No equal representation for all regions at the corporate level.
Overworked, underpaid, disrespected & unappreciated.
The employees outside of corporate is what makes the job bearable. 
It was good for a while.  But time to go.

CF is a great place to start your career and get your feet wet, but not where you should stay. Do not expect to get promoted regularly, or paid market rate for your position. Do not expect fair cost of living adjustments on an annual basis CF will give you the very bare minimum if anything at all. CF has a lot of incentives they offer to mitigate the poor rate in pay like extra paid time off and flexible schedules. There are no real business minded people at the top, and  you must be a professional engineer to make it to leadership. Lack of business savvy minds on the board has lead to financial strain and poor decision making for CF over the past 7 years with no signs of changing resulting in mass layoffs and office closures across the country. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Good retirement plan and benefits

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Time management and project based hours. Management ability to train and assist in transitioning from past work back grounds to industry is lack luster. Required self training on own time outside work hours

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Toxic work environment, first week on the job leadership was criticizing client project management in front of new employees. A spouse was hired directly under supervisor creating conflict of interest and received preferential treatment 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
An unexpected dumpster fire! You were punished with a large work load if you considered to take time off.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Security, they are an honest employer.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The most stressful part of working there was working and not knowing the end goal of the survey.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The environment was very professional and was a delight.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
My typical day was usually loading up truck with supplies for the day reviewing assignment for the day and executing plan made by party chief. Walking and taking measurements as-per our goal. Returning to office and charging equipment for the following day.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Top heavy, lower ranks do all the grinding out work and the least credit and rewards. Be careful about speaking out against poor engineering practices and unethical conduct.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Having your education & experience pigeon holed, held back if you have great money & time saving proven ideas. If it’s  not a supervisor’s idea then it won’t be considered. They will claim the credit. The corporate policy is written to hold your money as long as possible.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
If you do not have a degree you do t exist.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Long and boring. Lots of cancel culture

What is the best part of working at the company?
My manager, Xmas vacation and working with me through a difficult health issue. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The division within its regions. In 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It was very family oriented and caring. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Doing most of the work myself because they didn’t have the resources to help my division.

It was honestly the worst place I have ever worked.  The engineers were snobs and thought they knew more than everyone else.  My supervisor was condescending and showed favoritism with the other employees. The commute was absolutely terrible and I would dread going into the office every day.  Nobody was available to teach me anything, and when they did, it was piece meal training.

It is a fine job I suppose if you like engineering work but I felt like I needed a more stimulating environment than being on the computer all day.. Not to mention there is no training on the job you are expected to learn everything by yourself and all the higher ups are always too busy to answer questions and my mentor was not nice to me at all and quite honestly was rude to me much of the time.. They also refused to get standing desks even though 20% of the ppl at the office have had back surgery

What is the best part of working at the company?
It was a team, healthy environment and friendly people.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Lack of field staff and a revolving door of staff going in and out.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Friendly and helpful and communicative 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Always something different and challenging yet rewarding

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Project engineer 3 salaries reported	$83,117 per year
Project manager 1 salary reported	$50.48 per hour
Field technician 5 salaries reported	$31.50 per hour
Survey project manager 2 salaries reported	$115,000 per year
Broadband technician 1 salary reported	$40.00 per hour

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