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David Weekley Homes

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4.5

87% would recommend to a friend

(576 total reviews)
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Jay Brown

99% approve of CEO

86% positive business outlook

David Weekley Homes has an employee rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars, based on 576 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The David Weekley Homes employee rating is 22% above average for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).

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576 reviews
1.0
Jul 2, 2017

Builder

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits and compensation base on performance

Cons

Company is having serious growing pains and is trying to get to big to fast for a private company. They are are not a top 15 employer to work for which they consistently remind you about a fortune survey. maybe top 15 home builder to work for. You feel like your cheating the customers when you see how much they charge for these homes and what it actualy cost. They are way over priced making your job so much harder.

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David Weekley Homes Response
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We appreciate you taking the time to share this feedback with us. Our People Department and Management Teams pay close attention to the comments we receive here.
3.0
Sep 4, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people they hire are great! At the meetings and gatherings, it is a family feeling environment. Holiday and Quarterly parties are a lot of fun. The people that work in the main home center are all fantastic! Nicest bunch of people you could possibly work with.

Cons

Where do I begin... The pay is a joke. If you want to earn a respectable living, you need to be a sales consultant. As a builder, good luck ever making $50k plus. To them builders are expendable and you will be paid and TREATED as such. Management will NEVER support you even if they tell you straight to your face that they will. Expect to be lied to as it will happen quite often. Managers will give you a BS "company" answer to any question rather than shoot you straight. Homeowners and the survey results are more important to this company than the wonderful people that they hire. Turnover is not uncommon once people realize they have been dooped. Be prepared to be owned by the famous DW survey. If you get ANYTHING less than a Def. Would Recommend, your job will be on the line and you will be under the microscope from then on. You WILL loose sleep at night worrying about your job and your quality of life WILL suffer. The survey thing is mostly with what David Weekley calls- "cultural buyers". It's a nice term for- Indians. If you work in a mostly "cultural buyer" community- your life will be miserable. When you hear things like: "We don't make changes after start" or "We do not do re draws" - immediately know that these are blatant lies. As a builder you will basically be doing CUSTOM builds on a PRODUCTION schedule. That theory doesn't work in this market with the trade base and pay, but you will be expected to MAKE it work or you will be out of a job. (This is probably mostly only true in the DFW market than anywhere else in the company due to the poor management in this area) Bottom line, if you want to work for David Weekley, and you actually want to be successful - DON'T do it in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area!

2.0
Oct 28, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great money and fair compensation plan

Cons

Serious disconnect between owner's values and what is actually being done in the field. Management all from a builder background, no idea what sales is actually like You are a dime-a-dozen, don't follow their culture or the exact way they want things done, you are gone One of the highest turnover rates in the industry for sales

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David Weekley Homes Response
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Thank you for sharing this review. We appreciate you sharing feedback and advice.
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