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LOTS of growing pains after being assimilated into parent company with many issues in the HR/payroll side. Many of us eventually let go due to workforce reduction, including remote workers and some heavy-hitters for the company. Did not feel NV5 had employees' interests. Everything strictly tied to time and efficiency as a means to financials, making employees feel like little more than a number on a sheet. Will offer good new-to-the-industry experience, but wouldn't be great for a career company. Immediate/low-level management tries, but upper management of parent company seemed aloof and very rarely engaged. Pay seems OK, but may be slightly worthwhile if OT is ever an option and you're prepared to protect your work/life balance. No information available for a clear path of advancement, so was difficult to figure out what the next steps in career path was. Little to no feeling of job security.

The pay here is good for engineers.  However, the work is very slow and has been for the past two years from what I have been told.  The management here is poor and is lacking serious communication to employees.  You won't know what to work on most of the time and the work is usually given to the employees favored by management.  This leaves you to go around the office "begging" for work.  For new employees in the consulting engineering world these situations can be very disheartening.  You will receive great pay but you won't be learning much until you find steady projects and good mentors.  Now this is not to say the projects are boring.  Actually, many are very interesting.  My advice is to find a mentor you can trust and get as much knowledge and work from them as you can.  Also, the benefits are not the greatest and the recent merger with NV5 makes traveling for work more common.

My experience with NV5 was disappointing from start to finish. Communication was poor, expectations were often unclear, and there was little support from management. The work environment felt disorganized, and employee concerns did not seem to be a priority.

A typical day involved constantly changing priorities with limited guidance, making it difficult to perform the job effectively. While I gained experience working under pressure and adapting to challenges, I expected a much more professional and supportive workplace.

The hardest part of the job was the lack of communication and inconsistent management. The only positive aspect was working with a few friendly coworkers who made the experience somewhat more manageable.

Overall, I would not recommend NV5 based on my experience.
And yes, one more thing, Construction Manager Brian Arone at Rahway, NJJ office is rude, doesnt help you. will eat your mileage and hours in order to make their big boss happy. Beware!!!!

Pay is competitive with decent benefits. Flexible work day (changing to more strict the further we get from COVID). However this company does not promote from within, train you to fulfill your role, or help you train/develop in any way. You are expected to come in knowing how to fulfil your role. There is no formal training structure/database. If you want to progress you must do it on your own time, as you must keep your company time charged to projects. No financial incentive to further education in any way. When something needs to be done they will hire someone to do it and then "trim the fat" instead of training the people they have. NV5 as a whole relies on acquiring other companies with competent teams and systems already set in place and then benefiting from ownership. They do not grow organically. You feel this as an employee when 

NV5 is a purely capitalistic company where the lower level employee work and higher management gets rich everyday. the worse benefit ever. they do not contribute to 41K and their bonuses are poor. Engineers gets around $1200 "in restricted stock vested in three years" (that is if you even get it). You are given $1200 taxable but you can only get it three years down the line. you lose the money if you decide to leave the company before then. employee turnover is just so high but upper management is bent at getting rich. they don't care about the lower level employees.

If you think this company actually cares about their employees, you are in for a rude awakening. The feeling of being disposable is constantly lingering, and with little to no training, they kind of expect you to know what you don’t know. You’re just a number to this company, workplace morale is horrendous and no one seems to care to fix that. Don’t speak your mind, if you do you could get fired just for asking too many questions. The owners of this company don’t even know how to not “reply all” on intercompany emails, everyone can see how much they only care about how much money they are making off their employees and not the actual work environment that their employees are having to endure. 

The workplace culture here is generally relaxed for a company its size and industry. Much less relaxed at management level. Great experience for environmental specialists early in their careers. As with any consultant work the pace ebbs and flows according to workload. Slower times can be downright boring. Working with different disciplines in one building, however, is very interesting. Since NV5 took ownership of the company, management expects a lot from its employees for as little compensation as it can give, so make sure your employment terms are satisfactory before climbing on board. Also be prepared for a lot of red tape with regard to human resources.

There is no 401k match here.  They dangle stock in front of you just to keep you as the stock takes 3 years to mature.  There is no support and if you have an issue good luck finding someone that can and will help you.  Upper mgmt, is not concerned with your advancement or career aspirations.  They want you to stay in the "box" that they hired you for.  A typical raise is .5-1% year after year.  Medical and dental are par with other companies. There is no bonus structure.  Your clients are your clients and upper mgmt takes no ownership in assisting you with their needs.  This place is a dead end job.  Look elsewhere.       

A typical work day for me began with logging into my pc, connecting to the vpn, and logging into my desktop. I would check in with colleagues via teams. The majority of my interactions with colleagues was in the virtual environment. 
The tasks I performed were often repetitive. Many hours of visual review of imagery data on the map view.
I was responsible for QC, editing to correct issues, managing data appropriately. 

The company is primarily focused on mergers and acquisitions to add to valuation and bottom line profits. Attracting stock purchasers is more important than staff development and retention. No doubt they are more of a "holding company" poised to Flip than they are a culture dedicated to its employees well being and customer satisfaction.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Engineer 7 salaries reported	$85,714 per year
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Gis technician 3 salaries reported	$20.33 per hour
Senior technician 3 salaries reported	$24.30 per hour
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