"People Come Last" - Anonymous employee PCL Construction Employee Review

1.0
Jun 22, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Absolutely none, unless you consider working at least 11-12 hours a day with no overtime pay, and average salary "pros".

Cons

Everything, specially the HR department that preaches about things they dont practice. Expect to hear fancy words like "we value work life balance" or "we encourage employee development" etc, then you go to a project work at least 6 to 6, forget about family or life, work Saturdays, and they give you no time to do anything in your life but work work work. The company's reputation for being short for "People Come Last" is very true, and has been proven many times. P.S. I worked for 3 fortune 500 global companies before, PCL is the smallest size employer I've ever worked for, so if anyone can judge such an overrated company like this, it's me.

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PCL Construction Response
9y
We’re sorry to hear you’ve had that experience. If you have some advice on how we could improve the situation and be more consistent when it comes to doing what we aim to do, please e-mail us at Glassdoor@pcl.com. We’d love to hear from you.

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Cons

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Cons

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Thank you for your review. Construction can be a challenging but rewarding industry so we appreciate your time and committment to building better futures. If you’d like to provide more details regarding your specific situation please reach out to glassdoor@pcl.com.
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