McCarthy Building reviews

4.3

81% would recommend to a friend

(741 total reviews)
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Ray Sedey

97% approve of CEO

88% positive business outlook

McCarthy Building has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 741 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The McCarthy Building employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.6 stars).

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741 reviews
3.0
Nov 25, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

A lot of the employees really believe and follow a family working philosophy, given you're not working alongside a bad one. The company has been adapting more of a philosophy for caring for the employee over the last years, things like health incentives and benefits. It feels like an employee run company, but with obvious upper management made significant decisions. Company has a good amount of perks,like ESOP, bonuses (sometimes), all in all- above average. Some leadership is realistically open to accept changes. The company is actively pursuing and getting work.

Cons

Work - Life balance, sometimes 80+ hr a week. I see some people put in reviews this is normal. But that's not true. Quality / Timeliness of delivering "products" is what leading construction companies expect - a Big impact of this is efficiency. A lot, not all, of McCarthy Leadership are stuck in the philosophy "if you're not spending the time, it's not enough". And that philosophy trickles down onto jobs and sections of offices. The main culprits of creating this, are longer-term employees who have reached forms of leadership - some don't belong there but are "vested".. McCarthy has been evolving rules, procedures, programs, divisions, etc.. Very few employees or leadership have a good grasp on these, or have enough understanding to develop this in other employees. Depending on your leadership or job, you'll face a significant amount of problems and get weighed down heavily in these. Jobs are usually spread too thin. The company doesn't have enough talent retention to properly staff jobs/positions usually, which again is not normal. Usually this is covered up by stating "we don't have the budget for it".

5.0
Nov 24, 2015

Great company, smart people

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great culture, focused people, top management

Cons

Communication still a work in progress, but improving.

3.0
Oct 26, 2015

Foreman

Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay I suppose depending on title. I can not think of many pros for this company. Maybe if one was a superintendent it might be better.

Cons

Modern day slavery. Long hours 65+ a week, 10+ hr days with one 30 min break that is really only 15 min. There is no moving up within the company. They work the hell out of you and when the job is over they fire you. Upper management has no clue what they are doing. They micro manage like you wouldn't believe. You will have 4 different people telling you how to do one task 4 different ways. When it's completed you have failed because each of them is upset that you didn't do the task how they required. Communication between management is horrendous.

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