Meritage Homes Reviews

Pros

Flexibility; staff; expansion; salary; fun

Cons

Overly tense; not sharing effectively;

Pros

The benefits are competitive. Support services by IT, HR and Accounting are good. There are opportunities for continuing education and training.

Cons

Lack of leadership and vision at the Senior Management level has created a negative environment. It is very difficult to implement changes, new programs or put forth new ideas. The recent push to centralize sales and marketing functions has eliminated many positions at the local level. There is too much emphasis on the ideas and input of a select few, which results in limited opportunities for advancement or recognition.

Advice to Senior Management

Work harder to grow future leaders. Stop focusing on short term results and plan for the future. Focus on building quality products.

Pros

You are there to sell. Models are nice. Communities are old sites purchased from builders that did not make it.

Cons

Long hours. Lots of time at work. If you sell a lot, so what sell more. Competitve floor leads to backstabbing. You will work almost every Hoilday.

Advice to Senior Management

Shared floor in a dow market. Stop buying used communities. They did not make for a reason. Train instead of demand.

Pros

Very clean work environment. Great coffee maker. Great location if you live in the area. A wonderful and cheerful receptionist, always greeted with a smile.

Cons

You need to have a very bad attitude to work there. There are sayings around the office that seem to promote this negative behavior. There is a lot of finger pointing and not taking resposibility for task that are assigned to you.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop pointing finger's and be more proactive. This is a great time to learn to work together. Be more vocal when a good job is done. Emplyee recognition and rewards.

Pros

They are more then fair when it comes time to down sizing there employees.

Cons

They are married to the customer surveys so if you don't get "10's" you did something wrong and your job could be in jeopardy. If you do get "10's" then you did your job.

Advice to Senior Management

Just as we are all different as indiviguals so are our opions. Surveys can very wildly from person to person on the exact same product. If you want to turn your company into "KB" then you will suffer with in the employee gene pool. Only the people looking for a check will stay and the better ones will look for an exet door asap.

Pros

Delivered quality homes to the customer. Support staff was top notch. We were given the freedom to get what we needed done without micromanagement.

Cons

There was too much upper management turnover. We had 4 managers in a 2 year span.
Too much emphasis put on customer surveys.

Advice to Senior Management

Stabilize management structure and dont worry so much about customer surveys. They have no value if you give them everything in the world just to get a good score.

Pros

Discounts on vendor products are available.

Cons

Change is fine but not sticking with a direction to know the result is a problem. Mood of management tells you whether you are doing a good job or not. Lack of direction when it comes to providing input on projects even when questions are asked.

Advice to Senior Management

Looking outside the industry for talent would revitalize the stale oligarchy in place.

Pros

The sales commision structure is generous.

Cons

Local leadership is only focused on what you did last week without regard for your years of tenure or sustained results.

Advice to Senior Management

The national and regional leaders have tried to create a good culture and work environment even in difficult economic conditions but you should conduct interviews with previous employees if you want to find out what really goes on hear in Fort Worth.

Pros

The best aspects of Meritage are a paycheck, the staff level employees, and divisional management that are still there; that's about it. At one time there was almost an entrepreneurial spirit at MTH-that is gone now. Instead it has been replaced by trying to follow in the footsteps of other failing builders, that senior leaders have worked for in the past.

The homes are actually unique and some have some very interesting architectural features. The construction quality is fairly high (as high as it can be for a national builder constantly looking to cut costs (cut some corners), and reduce standard features.

Cons

No corporate communication to divisions, and terrible IT reporting systems-worse yet they base significant decisions on data from a reporting system that has serious flaws and shortcomings (and senior leaders know this, but it's simply easier to ignore) . If you need a paycheck-work there, but watch your back. You just have to work like you're on an episode of survivor-make sure you make the right alliances, so you can be kept in the game and not voted off!

There is a complete lack of understanding for regional needs and desires of home buyers. They need to understand that not every buyer is the same as they are in Phoenix or TX.

Advice to Senior Management

Be honest with your employees. You don't have to spill corporate secrets to still be able to keep employees informed.