KB Home Reviews

Pros

Great pay. Lots of opportunity for advancement.

Cons

Long hours. Disorganized at times.

Advice to Senior Management

Standardize procedures more. Far too many meetings. There is a huge disconnect between purchasing and the studios. National contracts need to be better negotiated.

Pros

Good company to work for.

Cons

Very long hours and no real family life.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more supportive.

Pros

The strucutured selling training was excellent and by far the best part about the whole experience. Great place to learn if you want to get started in the business.

Cons

Long hours go with the job. Management's focus was on gross sales numbers; write the contract and see what sticks.

Advice to Senior Management

The system works to a point. You do a great job of training people to sell homes. I understand it is a numbers game but the sales managers and directors need to lead through motivation and inspiration, not intimidation.

Pros

Good Construction Quality on Homes

Cons

Poor Design and Finishes in Homes

Advice to Senior Management

Build better homes

Pros

good pay, job in design center was fun and creative. great bonuses and incentives. fun creative people to work with

Cons

long hours, weekend work, pressure to make sales goals, cookie cutter uniforms, sometimes difficult to get management to hear your ideas

Advice to Senior Management

be more open to hearing the suggestions of the associates who are actually working with the clients. Stand behind the decisions of your associates and dont always bend in front of the customer

Pros

Great training program
Strong stable company
Great management
The market is not fantastic right now but KB has made strides in the right direction with branding and marketing to stay ahead of the game. It is hard work but a great place ot work. You have to be passionate about this business to survive with any builder in today's economy.

Cons

Hours can be long but it take shard work to be successful in any business

Advice to Senior Management

Keep leading the way

Pros

-Great potential income
-You get a draw check when you have no closings (caps at 10K)
-usualy laid back place to work

Cons

You dont get paid any commision up front, so you can starve until closing.

You will not recieve the hot communities to sell in unless your close with the district manager

You will be treated like a child ( it is not uncommon for your DM to call your appointments to make sure your not making them up, then your buyer comes in wondering why your boss was checking on you)

You will be required to attend "Call A Thons" where you drive to corporate with all of your reg cards so they can listen and make sure your actually calling your buyers.

VERY POLITICAL ENVIROMENT

Get used to being the badguy as you watch shady practices be used on buyers (EX: two of your buyers family members get killed in a natural disaster overseas and even though construction has not begun on his home you are told to not give him back his earnest money.)

Advice to Senior Management

Quit and let more inteligent people fill your roles.

Pros

Very Good Pay, good benifits

Cons

Poor Communication, Poor oppurtunities for promotion, poor focus on personal developement, poor leadership

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on people, people are the strength of an organization. Everything else are just force multipliers.

Pros

People care
Decent compensation
Professional management - compared to the family-run hacks elsewhere

Cons

Tough decisions are put off
Terrible industry right now
Management shows very little trust of employees
When's the market coming back?

Advice to Senior Management

Stay the course! You've got a plan to make money again, and the worse thing would be to deviate from it at this point.

Pros

KB pays well, but they will wring every ounce of life out of you.

Cons

Few people get promoted from within, rather the company routinely seeks new personnel from outside the organization

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your people more fairly. Learn to develop your people and promote from within. KB has good people who deserve the opportunity.