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
5.0
Oct 20, 2016

PM

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay, great benefits, stocks worth 19% of your salary, 3% 401k contribution with no match and another 3% if you put in 6%.

Cons

Looong hours...nothing else bad about this company.

4.0
Sep 28, 2016

Project engineer

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Stock plan, medical package, 401k

Cons

Hours. The job site culture here is ancient. Just because you demand employees stay at their desk for 12 hours a day doesn't mean they won't run out of productive things to do after hour #4..

3.0
Nov 25, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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".

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