Centex Homes Reviews

Pros

Centex is a great place to work, when the economy is better, look for their job search, they have a great corporate culture

Cons

As a company, they need to be more flexible in their business plans.

Advice to Senior Management

Look at the state of the economy when making plans for the future. Pay closer attention to your upper management and make sure no one is hidding anything from your projrections.

Pros

Great atmosphere with a great understanding by all employees of the importance that company continuity had. Centex promoted from within whenever possible and gave career paths to many employees that started out as interns. Each division acts as its own business unit and makes projections for their future.

Cons

checks and balances are not all in place and this allows for some individuals to take advantage of the system and possibly damage its reputation and financial standing.

Advice to Senior Management

Look at your management and their actual performance more closely.

Pros

Centex was a great supporter of promoting from within, They recognized and rewarded people for working hard. Great benefits as well.

Cons

Centex Homes was a great place to work, and I was very disappointed when they decided to pull out of the area that I was working in.

Advice to Senior Management

I had two sales managers while I was at Centex Homes. Both were very interested in seeing that people were rewarded for their contributions to profits. Positive reinforcement goes a lot further that negativity.

Pros

Good pay,
Fun place to work
Team players
Builds a good home

Cons

Managment not intouch with field staff

Advice to Senior Management

Be more intune with your field staff, promote people based on there merit. Remove the politics from the field.

Pros

Positive work environment, opportunities for growth, great financial compensation,

Cons

Long work hours @ time. Never were able to balance out the work flow (seasonal)

Pros

Pays well good people to work with

Cons

Low standard for quality of work from employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Hirer and retain talent

Pros

Centered on Customer Service and they always work to continue education and training.

Cons

Purchased by Pulte Homes so the company culture is different

Advice to Senior Management

Keep as many Centex Employees as possible.

Pros

My coworkers felt like family.

Cons

Sometimes it is hard to work with family.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't change!

Pros

Company which allows employees to be self managed and is respective industry company across the country who builds quality homes and provides active lifestyle communities.

Cons

Company ambitions during the peak of the industry's real estate boom to become the nation's largest homebuilder based on total closings for that fiscal year.

Advice to Senior Management

The company should had the foresight to see that market conditions could none sustain the number of homes being constructed in an industry that fluctuates in 7 to 10 year cycles.

Pros

good hours, supportive management, good working environment

Cons

pressure to perform even in a bad economy

Advice to Senior Management

innovation in setting trends based on green building is lacking.