You are Rewarded for your Efforts. - Anonymous employee Build.com Employee Review

5.0
Sep 3, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Everyone starts at the bottom, no matter who are unless you are specifically recruited. If you start in Sales (which most do) you have the opportunity to build your own book of business to ultimately control your income. You can work as much as you want to or see fit, and honestly it shows on your paycheck. This is an environment that truly rewards the innovators and people love what they do. If you "suck" at your job or position your in, then its likely you wont be looked at for another position or be promoted. You have to prove you can make it in one role before you can be considered for another. Kind of like... if you cant hack it here, why would you make it there?? This company is constant growth, regardless of what people may think or have perceived from past decisions made by the Plumbing giant that bought Build.com years ago. Things are always changing and growing, because they understand that taking risks brought them where they are now and than without change there cannot be progress, and with no progress they become stagnant and begin to fall behind... we all know what happens to a company when comes.

Cons

With all the good there is some bad... some people have slipped through the cracks of the intense hiring process over the years that still linger under the radar. Those people make it hard to come to work at times, but in all honesty its up to you whether you do well or not. With constant change being great, it also brings about issues that some people cant handle. With the amount of change always happening, some people feel left behind or walked over, which can happen. with the change it beings uncertainty within the ranks and causes confusion. that can be discouraging and make people fearful of the future which ultimately affects to morale.

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5.0
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Pros

The most transparent and supportive company I've ever worked for. Generous with bonuses and raises. Management will support your growth within the company and paint you a path to get where you want to go

Cons

There isn't a single con that I experienced except for how I was let go. Recent raises, praises, never took a day off and even corporate recognition only a few weeks before my firing.

3.0
Aug 6, 2024
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Pros

My manager is excellent. She promote work life balance and the inclusiveness of the team. She understands that life happens and something’s are beyond our control. She encourages honest opinions and frustrations to be shared so she can do what she can to help with that. The pay is decent but does not equal the amount of work on a daily between excessive emails and 40 plus calls a day. Working remote is a plus as a single mother with very little help it allows me to get my kids on and off the bus and take them to appointments as needed. There is a lot of internal support in the form of share point.

Cons

Now to the bad. There seems to be very little upward mobility for long time employees. There are a lot of recent changes occurring with the merging of Ferguson and not all of it is good. The showroom employees are not on the same page as we are on how certain returns work and that causes a lot of confusion and discord with the customers which those of us on the phones have to deal with. There is plenty of lateral movement but that would require having to go to a whole new manager and start over learning their way of doing things. The same expectations are not across the board in all departments as far as responding in a timely manor to direct messages or even responding at all. CE is the low man on the totem pole and made to feel that way with the daily operations and not given the same respect as others in the company. The shift bid process is arcane and should be based off of seniority not KPI. All of the calls do not require “qualifying”. We have to deal with a lot of rude entitled customers when telling them no to something just to pass them over to OOTP and they get their way anyway 9 out of 10 times. And most importantly they changed over the phone system and Genesys is awful. Multiple dropped calls daily and zero visibility for our daily adherence to make sure we are on track to stay within our 85% required schedule. I am very good at my job I used to enjoy being able to fix the complex issues I come in contact with daily and now it follows me to bed worrying what’s coming next.

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