Bureau Veritas North America Employee Reviews for Anonymous Employee

"My current employer, Bureau Veritas, has provided great opportunity to expand on my current job skills. I have further honed my abilities with InDesign, copywriting, print media, and managing work travel. I am privileged to be a part of a marketing team that is dedicated to performing beyond expectations while supporting each other with assignments. I have a great working relationship with my supervisor that is both professional and friendly. It is a great place to work with hard working people and to sharpen one's professional tools."

"Accept employment with caution."

What do you like about working at Bureau Veritas North America?

"Some of the people were great to work with. They had a great senses of humor, which made stressful days go by with ease."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"They spent a lot of time selling the position to me during the interview phase. But once I got there, I was only doing 20% of the duties and responsibilities I was expecting. I was very bored, unchallenged, and under-utilized. I'd like to hope things have changed, but Rome wasn't built in a day. If you're interviewing for a position with Bureau Veritas, please keep this in mind. If you decide to accept a job there, I suggest doing it on a trial basis. Keep your job search active and be open to new opportunities elsewhere until you really feel Bureau Veritas is a good fit for you. Otherwise you could end up very unhappy and feel trapped with nowhere to go."

What don't you like about working at Bureau Veritas North America?

"My overall experience: Having undergone a somewhat recent corporate acquisition, there was little leadership. There was a lot of clean-up to be done because certain projects were neglected for too long. But no one in upper management was willing to make decisions to get the ball rolling on them. To be completely honest, it was like a cage of monkeys trying to run a circus. This Illinois office was too detached from the North American headquarters in Florida and the corporate headquarters in France. No one was guiding the ship, and neither of the corporate offices seemed to care much about it."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Upper management spent a lot of time in meetings talking about what needed to be done to move forward. But they didn't want to take responsibility on anything. No one was willing to hit the start button on any projects that were in desperate to be accomplished. Our hands were tied, and it was very frustrating."