- Salary is lower than industry average across the board.
- Management believes they have enough of a reputation and have created a mousetrap that they don't need or really want A players.
- They'll talk at the recruiting level about their bonus structure. Don't believe it bonuses are 2-3k across the board. Doesn't matter what you do or how you perform they bonus everyone the same.
- Really convoluted and dysfunctional 'leadership'.
- If you're new don't expect to ever gain entry into the upper management ranks, those books are closed to outsiders.
- Try to sell and run work in the company and you'll be horrified at what the results are.
- Ownership is pushing for income taxation in WA state.
- Sales is odd, by this I mean it is either older PM's who have a customer base they sell to, or it is a beauty contest. That's the strategy. Some GC's are friendly, many in the market have had bad experiences and don't really want to consider 'big blue' for work. Owner makes a lot of behind the scenes donations and deals to keep work coming in the door, selling on the merits of the companies production rates or competencies is difficult to say the least. Not unusual in the Seattle market honestly. Their work is almost all GMP where the number you sell is highly inflated and there's no motivation to track or maintain good contractors practices, it's just about coming in below whatever number you can inflate and sell.
- It's a tough place to work as an 8-10 year experience level unless you spent that whole time at McKinstry and drank the kool-aid.
- The CEO likes to do quarterly conversations about how well the company is doing, but that conversation seems to only be for two thirds of the year, then it's silence because they don't believe in compensation because they built the mousetrap that is amazing and don't do real profit sharing.
- It's a family business, and you're not in the family.
