Building Materials Holding Reviews

Pros

It is a company filled with great people. They are knowledgable at their jobs, care about fellow workers, and they work as hard as they play.

Cons

Home construction business is on shaky ground right now. The company is consolidating and closing locations in order to become profitable.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep working at rebuilding the company and be sure to reward those employees who hung in there with you.

Pros

Low level employees are honest and hard working.
Work/life balance was excellent.
benefits were good before the bubble.

Cons

Company is in a shrinking industry.
Way too much overhead to support current cash flow.
Creativity to solve problems efficiently was replaced by corporate oversight and regulations.
Employees who do not agree with management are marginalized - motivation by fear.
Senior management is so detached from rest of company, they reside and work in a different city and state than corporate employees.
Corporate oversight and regulations created solution stagnation. Nothing gets done unless paperwork is filled in in triplicate then reviewed by committee three months later. If an employee works outside of the bounds of his/her box, s/he is reprimanded.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior Management should have listened to employees when they said there would be a housing bubble, instead of retiring, firing and marginalizing them.

Pros

Market Leader in roofing industry..good compensation plan compared to other manufacturers

Cons

Private Company sometimes not very transparent to employees
Decisions made no matter the effect to the customers

Advice to Senior Management

Think more about the customers needs

Pros

Resonable work hours.
Most of the people are good to work with.
Pay is fair for Boise.

Cons

Management doesnt know what it is doing.
People who have worked here for a long time and leave because of poor decisions by others are often blamed for those decisions.
Management has grown large while "workers" have been reduced while work load has not.

Advice to Senior Management

Trim middle management - there are entire levels which could be removed. How many directors do you really need?
Bring in new blood when you did need to hire, there is a lack of diversity of thought.