r/BurnsMcDonnell

I can't tell if Andi is truly useful or not. We've spent a lot of money and time on these AI enablement trainings and it seems the only thing I can get it to do is rewrite emails or help me think of Christmas present ideas.

I have tried to get it to parse data from Excel spreadsheets. I have tried to get it to aggregate news from my area and industry. I have tried to get it to find risk policies on the company intranet. It doesn't seem to be able to help me with these things.

I have seen people create agents, but those mainly seem to be different flavors of email editors. Am I stupid or slow? Is this thing that's being pushed from every angle really helping you in your day to day?

I'd really just like some concrete examples for how to use the thing that actually impact my day to day job.

If I make a change I’m worried it could jeopardize my promotion to senior (next cycle). If I stay put until promotion I’ll be more expensive and will make it harder to convince other teams to train me up on new stuff. I derive very little joy from the work I’m doing.

Turned down an entry-level offer to join the company a few years ago as a new grad mostly due to low base salary and lack of support for hybrid work.

Just curious, seems like total compensation becomes pretty competitive with the ESOP bonuses and whatnot, but do you ever worry about being overexposed? What would stop you from losing a huge part of your retirement and your job at the same time if the company were to start going under? Is the company too big to fail?

Just curious as an outsider who has been lurking in this sub for a while.

I am about to finish my last semester of senior year this upcoming Fall and was wondering how much starting Assistant EEs get paid, obviously it depends on location but was wanted a general consensus. I looked on Glassdoor and saw total comp at 70-95k. I wanted to know if this was accurate or a load of BS. I have had a previous internship with BMcD, does that play a role as well?

Do their careers become less prioritized at that point within your gp?

Not talking about any individual in particular but I feel leadership of this company has gotten so out of touch of what we are as a company. Does anybody even care to watch leadership videos visiting job sites of successful projects that they did not contribute at all to? They just swoop in take the credit and glory off the backs of the hardworking engineers. Why not actually send the people who actually worked hard and contributed to the project? Or these videos of leaders chatting it up over a cup of coffee and comfortable sofas reading off an obvious script not doing actual work while the engineers are the ones who are working evenings and weekends to meet deadlines. Leaders of this company trying to turn this company so corporate like Google or Apple when we’re not even that big. Do they actually think the employees care about or encouraged by these videos?

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Which global practices pay the best/worst based on what you've heard? Does their workload and stress reflect that higher/lower salary? Obviously taking into account COL differences if they're in different cities. For example, I've heard the pay for a MechE in Power vs A&F, both in WHQ is different, but the workload and stress differences seems to explain why.

Hey everyone,

I’m an electrical engineer looking at opportunities with HDR and Burns & McDonnell, specifically in their Power groups.

I’m hoping to hear from anyone who has worked at either. Pay, culture, project work, etc. Thanks in advance!

I started at Burns & Mac last year. While it was a great opportunity, due to family concerns, I need to relocate away from the office I accepted my offer from, to a city we don’t have an office in. When I accepted, I was given a signing bonus and was told that it was contingent on me staying 12 months.

I can’t seem to find that stipulation on my offer letter, and I just want to understand what the process for that would look like. The firm I’m having to move to is willing to help pay it back, I just want to understand what is going to happen.

While I enjoyed my time here, it does suck that I need to leave, hopefully I can find my way back to the firm in the future

What does the BMcD security actually do at the KC office? I’m glad we have it just in case but if some crazy environmentalist wants to attack the HQ would they actually be able to keep us safe or were they hired just to make sure we have badges on? Are they actually trained for that situation like cops are? If not would it be crazy to want to have an employee or two on every floor with a gun for defense locked up at their desk?

Edit: provided said employees have proper training and experience with firearms.