Don't be complacent - Management Build.com Employee Review

4.0
Apr 7, 2015
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Pros

If you are competent at what you do and show initiative you will be given all of the responsibility you can manage. Complacency is not rewarded, but if you continually grow you will likely be rewarded. Communication not only within your department but across the entire company is key to your success. Hiring from within happens a lot and is encouraged by management.

Cons

Hiring from within potentially occurs a little more than it should. I feel the company needs to hire more from outside the company and outside the Butte County area. They need to ensure that they are bringing in fresh perspectives and industry experience. There is a tendency for management to act based on perceptions instead of facts. This is not uncommon in business. Just be aware of it and ensure that the perceptions match the facts as much as possible. Remember that other's perceptions are their reality.

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Build.com Response
9y
Pros are great. Being proactive and taking initiative is key! Its easy to get looked over when you are a wallflower, even if you are a beautiful one! As far as cons. I can't disagree. Often we take perceptions to be reality and act on those realities. We try and practice discipline and constraint, but emotions often run high. Its something we can continue to improve on and I appreciate you calling it out.

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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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