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Found 409 of over 509 reviews
4.1
75% Recommend to a Friend
Langan Engineering and Environmental Services President & CEO David T. Gockel
95% Approve of CEO

Found 406 of over 509 reviews

4.1
75%
Recommend to a Friend
95%
Approve of CEO
Langan Engineering and Environmental Services President & CEO David T. Gockel
David T. Gockel
244 Ratings
Pros
  • "Very pleasant work environment here(in 35 reviews)

  • "High-profile projects utilizing a variety of engineering technologies(in 14 reviews)

  • Cons
  • "Sometimes work life balance suffers(in 48 reviews)

  • "Some projects may lead to long hours(in 32 reviews)

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    1. 3.0
      Former Employee, more than 1 year

      Lack of Leadership

      24 May 2023 - Staff Engineer in Los Angeles, CA
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Increased exposure to larger projects across the country, learn about a lot of different areas not just stuck doing one thing, President seems to care about employees but is detached from what is actually happening, high quality employees for most part, lots of training opportunities.

      Cons

      Work life balance is not possible; hard to see a project through from start to finish because you get pulled off to go do something else; they teach you how to do something but not why and then get upset when mistakes are made; some higher level managers have zero leadership/people skills and should not be over a team; older generations are holding back progress and not using apps and programs that would make work much easier; the different divisions (geotech/environmental/data management) don’t work together/share info.

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    2. 2.0
      Former Employee, less than 1 year

      Not a good place to work

      9 May 2023 - Staff Geotechnical Engineer in New York, NY
      Recommend
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      Pros

      -a lot of the coworkers are young, we had a lot of fun together, sports leagues - good health benefits

      Cons

      -never saw my coworkers except for outside of work because the working hours were brutal. We were expected to be on site most of the time from 6am- 3pm, so yes you get to finish early (sometimes) but had to wake up at 4:30-5 am in Order to transit up to an hour to make it to the site. Walking to the subway at this hour didn’t feel comfortable and a car was rarely offered unless the site was inaccessible by subway. - your schedule for the following week was put out every Friday, sometimes even the Monday of the week . Despite being schedule to work from office/from home multiple times, I ended up getting calls early in the morning or late at night asking if I could go to site. I scheduled my personal life around my work schedule so if I’m scheduled to be work from home then I’m not prepared to jump out and run to a site, especially if I have other responsibilities like kid, dogs, ect. - you only are allowed 10 days of vacation. This makes it nearly impossible to plan trips, especially because the schedule for the week was always released so late. They really don’t care about your work life balance - had to work multiple times until late at night even on Friday’s, just to get no acknowledgement of my time or efforts in return -pay could be better - managers don’t really explain anything to you, kind of just expected to know it - long days on site in the freezing cold weren’t cancelled, and we were just expected to suck it up. - would have taken me as long as 8 years to ever become a project manager Overall worst place I’ve ever worked, if you want a life don’t work here.

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    4. 4.0
      Current Employee, more than 10 years

      Great Company

      4 May 2023 - Project Engineer in Doylestown, PA
      Recommend
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      Pros

      A great culture in my local Langan office. A plethora of opportunities to work on local and national projects. The hybrid office model has really boosted moral.

      Cons

      Some groups don't encourage you to partake in business development opportunities because of billable/chargeable goals. This has been observed specifically with the environmental practice. Although bonus's are wonderful, base pay could be more competitive with others in the industry. However, combined + base pay puts you in a very competitive salary.

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    5. 5.0
      Current Employee, more than 8 years

      High Stress - High Reward

      13 Mar 2023 - Project Engineer in Parsippany, NJ
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Langan has some of the best professionals in the field in its vast network of offices. It is a rarity that you ever have a scenario that someone else hasn't experienced some component of the challenge you face. The ability of the company to connect you with that person is not something you can get at most firms. Being able to develop as a professional with that support system has been immeasurably valuable to me.

      Cons

      Financial success is the main motivation behind operations. If it needs to be done tomorrow, you work to get it done and meet client needs. While the consulting world is driven on this ideology, it sometimes can feel like the person doing that work is lost in the rush of it all. While the financial reward for your work is often seen in your pay stub, sometimes it doesn't feel like it is appreciated or even known for upper management.

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    6. 2.0
      Current Employee, more than 1 year

      Bad Work-Life Balance

      13 Mar 2023 - Anonymous Employee 
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Great people, everyone is very friendly and welcoming. Decent training.

      Cons

      When work is slow employees are expected to use vacation hours to boost productivity. Very big emphasis on maintaining billable hours. If there's no work for you, you'll be expected to sit in the office all day waiting for work and if nothing comes up you'll be expected to use your earned vacation time for the hours spent sitting at the office. Not sustainable as employees are only allowed 10 days vacation per year. Keep asking for work but not enough for 40 hours a week. End up helping out with other offices, but not all office do things the same way leading to confusion and time wasted. Rates are high and budgets are tight. Often don't have enough budget to spend an adequate amount of time on the work. Have spent the last 3 months worrying about being laid off.

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    7. 5.0
      Current Employee, more than 5 years

      Good people and work life balance

      16 May 2023 - Staff Engineer in Doylestown, PA
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Generally feel like the support is there to develop and people at the company do great work

      Cons

      More and more signs of becoming a larger firm lack of Transparency with employees and corporate jargon being used by managers

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    8. 4.0
      Current Employee, more than 3 years

      Great Place to Work

      26 Mar 2023 - Senior Staff Engineer in Doylestown, PA
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Exciting and interesting work. The firm tries to promote good work-life balance and employee well-being. Good benefits and fair pay. Competent and responsible leadership. Flexible remote-work policies within reason. Company seems to promote from within when possible.

      Cons

      Your success at the firm is dependent upon your billability and your managers ability to feed you work. Workload and maintaining high levels of billbility can be stressful, but that is common in many consulting firms.

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    9. 5.0
      Current Employee, more than 3 years

      Good Company! Awful PTO

      9 Mar 2023 - Project Engineer 
      Recommend
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      Pros

      - Everyone is very helpful and friendly - Strong CAD team - Company and CEO is very open and informative - Pretty progressive and staying with the times (technology wise and work-from-home wise) - Company does not require employees to jump through a bunch of useless hoops like some other companies - Good place to work

      Cons

      - The vacation day accrual rate and maximum amount of vacation hours possible is not great. Very old-school. Max amount is 20 days and not until 15 years of experience. - I’ve talked to few other companies to compare pay/benefits and I could be earning 20days right now and eventually 30 days. - 401k match could be a little better. - Pretty stressful

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    10. 5.0
      Current Employee, more than 1 year

      Best place to work!

      12 May 2023 - Staff Engineer in Oakland, CA
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Great place to work. Very healthy work culture.

      Cons

      Haven’t really seen one yet…

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    11. 4.0
      Current Employee

      Pay could be better but great experience

      1 May 2023 - Staff Geologist in Doylestown, PA
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Great learning and first step into the infustry

      Cons

      Pay could be better but decent benefits

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