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The people-first talk is not worth much in practice. Work-life balance is tolerated by management because junior employees know they can get another job across the street in this market. Otherwise, management treats employees like a commodity to be disposed of when no longer useful.

If you’re in production-level work, prepare to deal with a complete absence of standards and total chaos in procedures. Every team is like its own firm. Everyone is winging it and nobody has any answers. If you’re in management outside of a core office, then you can do OK if you’re a natural politician and can manipulate upper management. Otherwise, expect to have to put on magic show for your metrics. A particular CSO convinced management that it’s a good idea to do a bunch of M&A’s to create “promotion opportunities” for the old guard. Now there are managers for managers, meetings for the sake of meetings, and multiple strata of managers promoted for time in the company over capability.

The effort spent on internal communication will come off as heavy handed or even creepy if you’ve got any time in a firm that makes profit-driven decisions.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Phenomenal place to work!! This company has several offices throughout the state & metroplex. The company goes out of its way to make everyone from the secretary working the front desk to a twenty-year engineer feel valued & important. Working for Halff feels like you're working for a family or a very team-friendly, family-oriented environment.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Unrealistic deadlines & low pay based on industry standards.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The best work environment I have ever experienced.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
The manager greets everyone on his team and others throughout the office. Schedule a meeting, or ask the manager about any questions or problems you may have. Other than that, you work in peace throughout the day. Depending on the office you work out of, the CEO will walk around the entire building and greet every single employee present.

A typical day at work I consisted of me designing the drainage system for roadways. Drawing files were constantly being updated and the roadway ROW changed, therefore the drainage areas changed and so did my drainage design according to the drainage areas. I really learned how to produce cross sections in GeoPAK and how to write drainage reports. I also learned the process for proposed developments and how to write a Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP). In addition to the SWPPP reports I researched proposed development sites to produce Feasibility Reports and coordinate with TxDOT to figure out if traffic impact analysis are needed. Co-workers were friendly and the hardest part was not seeing them again. The most enjoyable part of the job was sharing ideas and an overall professional environment.

Pay is acceptable, not fantastic. Great skills to learn available in surveying and geospatial, great opportunities for field guys and office guys. Plenty of things to learn and raises to be had. 

Leadership at the Fort Smith office is fantastic, it's elsewhere in the company that is questionable and irritating to deal with. 

Your hours as a field guy are not and never will be set. Expect to barely make 40 hours one week and be forced to work past 9 PM the next week. Travel is about 50/50 depending on clients. You may or may not get your lunch break. Cold drinks and heat are provided in the summer. Boots are paid for. 

Overall great company in fort Smith, the company as a whole makes the environment a little worse 

I worked here for 8 months and had to leave due to a personal family decision. During my time here I was often given no direction as far as what needed to be done when. Different styles for different managers which made it difficult to adhere to one company wide format. There were multiple instances where I had to stay late until sunrise due to poor coordination on projects. Had to stay up 4 nights in a row to complete a small project on time due to engineers submitting their revised work just shy of the project deadline. Was never informed ahead of time. Work always had to be done with little or no lead time. Made family life impossible to plan for. Good benefits though, and you will need them because you'll most likely have to buy pharmaceuticals to deal with the stress and weight you will gain from not being able to exercise.

No communication, no training, no respect, and no leadership. Leadership is one sided only. They are perfect and they look at you like scum everyday. Human resources is not what you think. People here just want their check and leave. There is no team family environment like they say. Management talk badly about other team leaders. Team leaders talk bad about other team leaders. This is a gossip swamp. There is no growth or career development moving forward. If you work here just do not even waste your time with these unprofessional people thinking their do not stink and trust me it does from a mile a way with that attitude and horrible leadership skills. Not even their benefits are good you have to pay high deductibles and it made just it horrible with the pandemic. 

It's refreshing to work at an employee-owned AEC firm where ownership is well distributed and not in the hands of a small group.  I doubted the leadership team's claims of wanting to improve lives and communities, but after seeing it from the inside, I've seen that they are earnest and focused on doing just that.

I love my work and the people I work with.  I know I sound like a shill, but after many years of working in the industry, this is just a different kind of place; not perfect, but honestly striving to be.

it seemed like a good place and fast moving, then one day after 13 years my position was eliminated and with no opportunity to relocate as others were given. they were done with me after  13 years and no explanation other than automation and moving work to headquarters. I had just been part of the transition team for the new system from January to May 2017 for a new system and worked many long hours and weekend in corporate office to be laid off due to elimination of position.

typical day would be get to the office unlock the front door get the coffee going and greet anyone with a smile on my face when they walked in. 
 
i learned so much form this company as they keep you up to date with all the lunch and learns. wonderful up to date information on anything that we needed to know.

Management always came first with any concerns that the worker has! you could reach out to anyone and they always offer a helping hand 

coworkers are amazing and friendly.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Good 401K match and they are an ESOP company

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
As a Salaried employee they require you to work a lot of hours and the Health Insurance Sucks!!

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Laid Back but they have a lot silly rules

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Marketing, Proposals and drafting of projects. Oh and meetings. They love to have meetings!!

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Civil engineer 7 salaries reported	$81,500 per year
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Software engineer 3 salaries reported	$81,667 per year
Intern 3 salaries reported	$24.33 per hour

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