Richmond American Homes Reviews

Pros

Well compensated, plenty of opportunity to earn, good support from managers and a company with premier market position and financial backing.

Cons

VERY difficult to move up with limited career path opportunities. Sell or be fired. Politics are paramount and and many times take precedence over actual ability, production or merit.

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize talent and reults over political pressures and meaningless gossip. Numbers and production are great indicators of merit that deserve consideration for adcancement.

Pros

Pay is good so money

Cons

They do no talk so communication

Pros

The actual work was very fun. I loved designing and seeing a home come together. I think the benefits were reasonable, but I never utilized them because I used my husband's plan.

Cons

NO communication of expectations until the day you're being let go. You could be receiving praise and commended for a job well done the whole time you're employed there, but behind your back people are complaining about your incompetence and lack of productivity. It's like working with a bunch of high school girls. I had an employee review a week before I was let go and at that time I was "doing a GREAT job!"

Advice to Senior Management

Be honest with your employees. Your communication sucks.

Pros

you get to work every weekend and holiday

Cons

they don't pay you At All until you sell and then they take out months worth of benifits.

Advice to Senior Management

start paying a salary!

Pros

Good benefits, my management team was excellent and bright.

Cons

Sales is considered the bottom of the barrel at this company. If you start in sales, you will die in sales. Sales Management is consistently brought in from outside of the company. There was even a sales associate who quit, only to apply for a management position from outside the company, and she got the job.

Advice to Senior Management

Develop your sales team to be future sales leaders in the company. Outside people always have a hard time adapting to the unique culture of the company.

Pros

The only positive thing about working at Richmond is the fact that they do pay at about the industry average. They don't pay overly well, but they are competitive with their salary.

Cons

This was by far the worst company that I have ever worked for. Management is completely incompetent and will only believe what they want to believe. They do not give petty employees a voice or a chance to speak. The company has a certain type of person that they will only employee, and if you do not meet their rigid criteria, you will be victimized and verbally abused behind closed doors.

Advice to Senior Management

Take a step back and look at who is actually working and who isn't. it's a shame that people that have terrible work ethic and are just down right awful people get promoted and get to keep their job. There is a reason that true talent leaves the company and why turnover is extremely high.

Pros

Lots of exposure to the industry.

Cons

VERY political - all about what the C level thinks of you and how well you manage them. Not interested in ideas outside of their own.

Advice to Senior Management

Embrace leadership and allow them to lead.

Pros

Richmond had good employee comraderie, a fun working environment, and strong established processes. Overall a good 9 to 5 job.

Cons

No real down sides, except the housing economy was going down while working there, and the regional office was closed.

Advice to Senior Management

No advice at this point. With the housing market, they are skimming back in ancillary markets and trying to get by.

Pros

The pay is good but you will definitely work very hard. You can work from home if needed and there is always an opportunity to get promoted.

Cons

Management changes it's focus and priorities so fast that you may not even finish a project before you need to redo it, many times with deadlines remaining unchanged.

Advice to Senior Management

Get input from employees before setting deadlines

Pros

Can't thing of one reason I would reccomend Richmond American Homes other than they paid me fairly well.

Cons

Contracting policy borders on the dihonest. There is no way to keep up with the ridiculous contrcating method and the vendors are penalized as a reult

Advice to Senior Management

Stop forcing those in purchasing to treat the vendors like slaves and revise the contracting process so that it is manageble and easily updated.