6 Feb 2023
ESP Reviews
3.3
55% would recommend to a friend
Doug N. Fouser
64% approve of CEO
36% positive business outlook
ESP has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 80 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ESP employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, repair and maintenance industry (3.7 stars).
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80 reviews
1.0
10 May 2016
Recommend
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Pros
There aren't any left. Under the leadership of Jim Hoffman, ESP was fantastic, not perfect, but he genuinely cared about his employees and his customers. Money in his pocket wasn't the bottom line. The leadership ESP got stuck with is trash smartly discarded by other companies. These people brought in worker bees from their prior companies with promises of bonuses and high salaries. Those who do 98% of the actual effort, while the leadership with even higher salaries take 100% of the credit. Not sure what credit there is to take though. ESP continues to lose work, with new work wins, few and far between, and those that are won, usually doesn't result in actual work, just seats at a hopeful table.
Cons
Going through a dam ramming barge, who liked to talk, but not listen, as an interim CEO was bad. I didn't think it could get any worse, yet it has. Lies told to the board of directors about project money in the pipeline for bonuses, a BD team that hasn't developed much, loss of faith by customers, and employees. No communication. Executives who hate anyone here they didn't bring in, and openly discuss this (great going)! Environment is rife with lack of trust between teams that used to trust each other implicitly. Loss of employee motivation that is a direct result of viewing anyone not within their little clique as cattle class.
3.0
14 Jun 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
* After a few tumultuous years, the company is trying very hard to redefine itself, attract new business, and grow. * There are recognition programs for Spot performance awards & peer awards ($100-$500) - managers are empowered to recognize the superior performance of their employees. * The company is very firm about a 8-5 workday - nothing more, nothing less. No more traveling on weekends (which used to be very common).
Cons
* There are no simple processes, especially when the administrative processes of the company are coupled with that of the government process requirements. Even though they automated the process, a travel request can take several hours to complete due to the multiple manual forms that have to be completed. * There are so many bureaucratic reports... reports about reports - these reports go into a black hole, no one reads them and we never receive feedback on any of it. * The senior leadership/board has been desperate to change the culture of the company after they abruptly released the well loved founder/CEO a couple years ago. There has been A LOT of lost work during contract renewals due to failure of new leadership to understand the politics and relationships that ESP used to have within the DOD community. Any new work won, ESP is typically a very small player & this doesn't provide opportunities for internal movement. * Although annual cost of living expenses are built into government contracts, employees have not received this for several years. This annual cost of living increase remains in ESP's coffers - employees know that the j.o.b. they are assigned is pretty much as far as they will go within the company with no chance of annual raise for cost of living or any other form of pay increase.
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