Granite Construction reviews

Granite used to believe that they were special in some way-that they were so respectful towards their employees. They somehow received the "Best Places to Work" award for five years in a row. The people making this happen must have been managers and above and salaried field people because these people are truly the only people the company invests in. If you are not in those favored groups, you don't get any leadership training or support to move ahead, and good luck navigating the politics otherwise. Those people must also be thinking otherwise since they stopped getting the award a few years ago and haven't since. They are just now trying to make job descriptions and get people up to a pay level where they belong. They are so behind technologically it's a joke. They still use paper and outdated computer systems for almost everything. There is also NO accountability. They literally do not do performance evaluations and there are completely incompetent people there who have been doing their job for 20 years. If you're a problem employee, you just get moved to another department. They recently laid off 150 people and used no decision making logic to do so. Guess what? Tons of talent walked out their door-not so many of the dead wood since their decisions had nothing to do with performance. So much for their constant talk about "honoring their people"-one of the corporate goals!!-you are now a number that got crossed out. Tough luck after years of loyalty and actual good performance.

Heavy construction is hardly a field that is considered progressive, but Granite takes the cake. If you are a construction worker epect to work very long hours and to get little in return. As soon as the job is complete they will lay you off with no backwards glance. If you are a women go to any other company on the planet. Project manager told me he thought women were a distraction in the office and did not hire any. They also disrespected and finally ran off a woman on the project who was only there to do a job. These guys harassed her, told stories about her, and made nasty remarks every chance they got. She finally left because she couldn't stand it anymore even though she was a college graduate and had a professional position and worked for another company. Unfortunately, she had to deal with Granite guys and within a very short time refused to go into their office because she got harassed everytime she went in there. They thought it was funny. Really lowlife neanderthals that don't have a clue and if they'd do it to her they'd do it to you. I also was told by another Granite employee that they'd treated a woman on another job in the same way--were so awful to her she left. Big men threatened by women and anybody smarter than they are, which includes just about everybody. I also know of two large jobs they built in two different states. One had horrible pavement problems after they left and the other had a substructure failure less than a year after it was built. No quality in any way. They fought constantly with the owner and blamed everyone else for problems.