National Association of Home Builders Reviews

Current Employee – been working at National Association of Home Builders full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – The benefits are very good - decent salary.

Cons – No real career advancement opportunities.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at National Association of Home Builders full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Talented staff
Skilled, collegial management
Interesting subject matter

Cons – Bloated volunteer leadership and membership structure. Most nations (including the United States) get by with fewer legislative functionaries.
Committee assignments are a revolving door of incestuous relationships.
Short-sighted executive leaders, more interested in their own legacies than any lasting impact on the association

Advice to Senior Management – It will never happen, but ... work to reduce the size of the Board of Directors by 95%.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at National Association of Home Builders full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great, fun and smart people to work with. Good benefits and travel opportunities

Cons – Upper management not really open to new ideas. Even sharing new paths to success and ideas are shot down easily if its something they are not used to doing or hasn't been done before. Slow to change... Doesn't leave much room for innovation or improvement for member services. Controlled by members and its worked this way since association was founded in the 1940's I imagine.

Advice to Senior Management – Way too top heavy and high paid upper management reap all the rewards for hard work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at National Association of Home Builders full-time

Pros – A lot of good staff members to work with, especially from middle management down.

Cons – Industry downturn led to major staff reductions and budget cuts, which means staff is overworked and has limited resources to work with. Special interests and entrenched board members limit ability to reform.

Advice to Senior Management – Show more trust in staff and consider the impact of actions on morale, which is very low.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at National Association of Home Builders full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Decent benefits package, although nothing extraordinary. Very nice building and office space, great location in downtown Washington, DC. Some opportunities for staff travel, although this has dwindled as the financial difficulties have mounted.

Cons – Lots of office politics, back biting between departments over dwindling resources. Nasty entrenched middle management layer that spends much of their energy ingratiating themselves to upper management and members while treating their subordinates with contempt while taking credit for their hard work. Very little opportunity for upward mobility due to middle management "lifers." The organization is pretty clueless that it is in 2012 and clutches on to a very outdated 1970s-80s corporate culture a la Dabney Coleman in "9 to 5." NO flex time or telecommuting and every second of time is closely monitored. Working here will make you want to put "Skinny and Sweet" in the coffee.

Advice to Senior Management – Upper management needs to look for fresh talent at the lower levels of the staff organization, and put some of the "lifers" out to pasture to infuse the organization with new talent and ideas, If they dont, the organization will continue to diminish and get left behind.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at National Association of Home Builders

Pros – Absolutely wonderful staff - very smart and competent people, collaborative and willing to help you out - the place is understaffed so employees are busy.

Cons – It's been a tough economic climate, hopefully that is now history.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at National Association of Home Builders

Pros – - big organization
- talented people
- well respected

Cons – - executive leadership
- slow to change

Advice to Senior Management – find new leadership

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at National Association of Home Builders

Pros – Smart and professional colleagues
Excellent opportunity to make an impact in your area
Great benefits

Cons – Fearful leadership
Low morale
Organizational culture has low tolerance for change

Advice to Senior Management – Measure the output of high performing employees and reward them accordingly, and don't be afraid to retool some of the outdated structures to better meet the needs of today's members.

Former Employee – worked at National Association of Home Builders

Pros – Members of NAHB (Builders and Manufacturers) were great resources, very committed to NAHB and to the advancement of the home building industry. As a staff member, I enjoyed working there.

Cons – There are many programs within NAHB, so it can be confusig at times. However, I always received the assistance/guidance/advice I needed from fellow staffers, management and members.

Advice to Senior Management – As a former staffer, I would advise the management to work hard at cnsistently keeping the staff informed about the state of the industry and how it affects not only the NAHB members, but the staff as well.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at National Association of Home Builders

Pros – I worked in a great department and really enjoyed the people in my small team. I also had a great manager with whom I am still friends with although I left over 5 years ago. I think the experiences vary from team to team, but I enjoyed the professional environment and the membership.

Cons – There isn't a lot of room for movement within the organization and the pay is pretty much on par with what you expect for a not for profit organization.

Advice to Senior Management – We know you can't pay very high salaries so offer other ways to say "thank you" to staff, particularly those at the manager level and lower. Sometimes just recognizing departments that are not part of the "core group" can really make a difference.

If you do ever decide you want to go business formal again - you will need to pay more.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend