Downer reviews

3.3

47% would recommend to a friend

(961 total reviews)
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Peter Tompkins

71% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Downer has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 961 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Downer 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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961 reviews
1.0
Sep 13, 2014

Ship Of Fools Berthed at Chaos Central

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Pros

No pros to speak of.

Cons

Chaotic management and greenhorn CEO with the Midas touch in reverse has created a demoralising workplace. Australians aren't good enough for this company - they much prefer employing cast-off poms with neo-colonialist pretensions. Most of the good people, along with quite a few senior managers who were useless, are gone - the whole family got thrown out with the bath water. Demoralising workplace with no growth opportunities for talented and loyal people.

1.0
May 8, 2023

Avoid this company

Recommend
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Pros

Well know in the industry and the pay is decent.

Cons

There is endless roadblocks to getting anything done. The systems are ancient, broken and IT is extremely difficult to deal with. The culture is awful - super hierarchical and the people at the top are on an ego trip and totally unqualified to be at that level. The ideas are stale and innovation is extremely low. It haemorrhaging employees as the defence contract ends mid next year and the company is also making mass layoffs. Its a very old fashion environment (average employee age is 45 so go figure) They also seem to promote people who have multiple accusations if bulling because they know HR is useless/ under-resourced and cannot handle it. Nobody knows who Jacob is. He is a total enigma who is too good to speak to anyone below him outside of his direct reports.

2.0
Feb 28, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Company is in some great spaces with staff that are generally performance driven and self motovated .

Cons

Disfunctional executive , discriminatory practices and no sense of being in a cohesive team or in a business with a clear sense of direction. High staff turnover very low female management ratios a "bloke" management team headed by a number of chronies.

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