Baker Installations Reviews

Pros

Baker is a leader in their field, they seem to have the correct people in place to make working for them enjoyable. I see a long relationship between myself and Baker Installations.

Cons

The biggest con I find in working with a mid sized company like Baker is they do not have a retirement plan for the employees nor do they match any 401k contributions.

Pros

Benefits, pay, nothing, nothing, nothing, company truck, gas card, incentives

Cons

Hours, don't ever get hurt or find out you have a health condition because they will let you go!

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your employees better! Don't let them go when they find out they have a health condition!

Pros

Overtime if wanted.
Company Truck.
Company cellphone.

Cons

Very long weeks, sometimes up to 75 plus hours mandatory overtime.
Low base pay and rarely hit bonus.
Over a year in the company and not a single raise or performance review.
Never a consistent schedule.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire more techs or take less of a workload.

Pros

The pay is decent. Benefits weren't bad.

Cons

Long hours. No family life.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on the career minded employees and the money will come.

Pros

If you are a good installer with overtime and bonuses you can make alot of money for such a entry-level job. Pay increases are tied to bonuses. I happened to be very good at this job and was making alot of money each month.

Cons

You work six days a week. I rarely had less than 60 a week and had several 70 hr weeks. Also unless you live in a big city and there is a lot of contracting work there, you could have a long commute time which they don't pay for. Also your intitial pay depends on where they hired you. I once had to go to Parkersburg WV to do work and the cable technicians there started at $3 an hour less than I did. YOU WILL HAVE NO TIME OFF and NO PERSONAL LIFE.

Advice to Senior Management

Figure out how to give your employees more time off. There has to be a better way to manage you employees so you won't have to pay that overtime, if you could do that I'm sure you would be a lot more profitable.

Pros

Pay is ok. Unsupervised work-day. Company truck & tools.

Cons

Where to start? The hours can just be ridiculous & you can't go home until everything installed works perfectly... not that that is a bad thing since you're employed to make them work right, but sometimes it seems like the majority of the equipment you're installing doesn't work right.

Work every Sat & Sun and only have one weekday off.

Pay is just "ok". Doesn't matter how much experience you have as a technician, the pay is still just "ok". ... and in my opinion, just not worth the time & effort you put into the job and away from your family.

Advice to Senior Management

At the very least, every other Sat or Sun off. Only Wednesday off and working every Sat & Sun in a fairly stressful job is just asking your techs to eventually either just not give a damn anymore or leave your company.