CRH reviews

3.8

66% would recommend to a friend

(1,115 total reviews)

Jim Mintern

71% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

CRH has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,115 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CRH employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).

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1K reviews
2.0
Sep 17, 2014

Unbalanced

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Easy work that is equal to pay.

Cons

Small group of people with bad attitudes.

4.0
Sep 13, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Anyone reading reviews about Oldcastle in this or any other forum should realize that the context, location, reviewers working position and even business operation is important and relative to these reviews. I will make an attempt to generalize on all of Oldcastle from what I know from working 12 years with this organization. Unfortunately, a lot of reviewers display their own ignorance of the structure and business operations and don't realize that they are generalizing "Oldcastle" as a whole. No one can truly rate Oldcastle unless they can claim to have worked in every P&L operation to determine a generalization of Pros and Cons. I will sum it up like this, in Oldcastle, you’re either a leader or a follower. The leaders are the ones that rise above their own circumstances and are able to make a successful career at Oldcastle.

Cons

Oldcastle is a subsidiary of CRH plc out of Ireland. The business model of CRH is to finance and support acquired local and regional operational leaders in the building materials industry. The operational leader’s goals are to deliver performance and growth to CRH's investors. The pro and con to CRH is that CRH has always realized that they can't successfully manage and dictate how operations should be run. CRH believes that the success of the CRH investment portfolio depends on the local operational leaders to manage their employees and local business partners. CRH has a proven success record of not managing operations behind a corporate desk in Ireland. Of course there are cases where operation managers have run amok, but in my opinion this is a classic 80/20 rule.

1.0
Sep 10, 2014

Horrible

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are no pros to working here except maybe the hlaf way decent benefits.

Cons

If you're a women it's hard to move up or be promoted even if you work constant overtime to help your department and other departments. They like to hire from outside instead of promoting from within. If you're certified on every piece of equipment in there they won't pay you the pay they should. They try to screw you over on attendance even more than before, even with overtime even if it's voluntary and no specific time to come in. And if you do get it fixed it takes forever like months. Once you're in this place and try and get another job they make it extremely hard. Do NOT I repeat do NOT get a job here

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