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Granite Construction

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Career Killer - Engineer Granite Construction Employee Review

2.0
Jul 5, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Better organized construction company compared to many in the industry. They have a good handle on departmentally delegating the construction processes. They have been around for 90+ years and will probably be able to stay solvent.

Cons

The people managers are mostly promoted based on technical skills and relationships rather than an ability to effectively communicate and maintain high performances with direct reports. They are primarily an asphalt paving company and have not been able to diversify, which has made them vulnerable to an economy that lacks funding for the public projects they rely on to be successful. Good luck getting any kind of a decent job after this company dumps you. And they have dumped many in the last 4 years.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

- company car - well paid

Cons

- management does not communicate at all. They expect you to mind read and meet their expectations perfectly, even while in training like a seasoned veteran . If you don’t, they will fire you with no explanation and a smile on their face. - no formal training program; I was supposed to be trained for 6 months and they cut it 2.5 months and seemed to have held me to the standards of my trainer who had been with the company for over 40 years. I say seemed because again, no communication! - passive aggressive phone calls; management won’t communicate but they do love to call you and make it your fault when they’re having a bad day. - Lack of respect; i was interviewed by 3 of the managers and I could tell which ones chose me/liked me and which ones didn’t. Any recommendations I had to make dispatching smoother fell on deaf ears as I was not taken seriously or treated as a member of the team. It was clear my boss had not chosen me, but was “stuck” with me and was prepping to fire me from the moment training was done. - overtime all day; my day started at 5AM, but I could easily work until 7PM because none of the foreman/superintendents would give me their schedules until 4-5PM if at all despite every day I asked for them between 9-10AM and instead of holding them accountable, my boss told me “that’s just the way it is” which I don’t believe because we were the only region with this problem. Gotta love a boys' club!

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