After over 20 years in the industry, I have never been involved with a company that treated their paying customers and employees so poorly. Meritage greatly lacks fundamental integrity and it starts at the top. Upper management fails to grasp reality in the marketplace; they are quick to lay blame for the companies short comings on everyone but themselves and care about nothing outside of hitting lofty projections and protecting their job security. We all know it's a business, but there has to be a point where a company realizes what they're doing is borderline unethical in the treatment of their clients.
Moreover, as a construction manager, you will be pushed to maximum capacity, and continually take the fall for upper managements poor judgement and lack of industry awareness.
Meritage Homes is a prime example of the decline of quality and workmanship since the start of the 21st century in the homebuilding industry. Overpowered by greed and profits, key upper management positions throughout the company are filled with individuals whose construction and industry knowledge is laughable. As an employee under these Presidents and Directors, you feel as if their management techniques (lack there of) would be better suited for a General Motors assembly line or Mrs. Baird's distribution center - anything but a home builder.
Bottomline: I am embarrassed to have any association with Meritage Homes. It is homebuilders like Meritage that have driven down the quality of homes, eroded the value of the investment and ultimately made the production home industry feel like a used car lot.
Mismanaged, lack of direction, lack of common industry practices, poor quality, no leadership... the list goes on.. Would not advise my worst enemy to work at Meritage Homes
