Webcor Builders Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Webcor Builders

Pros – High profile projects, many resources, many very talented people. Webcor produces good products at a value to their clients.

Cons – Very large corporation with little ability to move.

Current Employee – been working at Webcor Builders full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Family environment; trusting; allowance for individuals to learn more and receive more responsibilities

Cons – Too much of a family environment; Perhaps the close bond hampers key decisions that may need to be made on personnel

Advice to Senior Management – Define our core values and live by them. make decisions by them.

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

Former Employee – worked at Webcor Builders

Pros – When you first start out, they really do pay you well.

Cons – However, once you start working, it's an unspoken rule that you work 50-60+ hours per week... and that's when the project is going on schedule. When the project is behind, you dont have a life outside the project. You start working 60 hours minimum, weekends, and overnight, if necessary.

Advice to Senior Management – Learn to balance home and work life! Your site management and field employees have life outside of the project.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Webcor Builders

Pros – The Company tries to value its employees to their best capabilities by providing them ways to improve their health, careers and life styles.

Cons – The career path management seem to be biased and non-functioning. Too many young and unqualified Managers and Upper Management seem dis-connected.

Advice to Senior Management – The company seem to be too top heavy in managment positions through out the company. Currently there are more VPs and Directors than Project Engineers on some of their Projects.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Webcor Builders

Pros – Great place to work and very talented people to work with. Opportunities to build some high profile projects in california. Great benefits and very competitive salaries compared to other bay area construction firms. Down to earth executives including CEO and COO of the firm.

Cons – Working on large scale projects does not allow room for growth and opportunity to take on various responsibilities. Sometimes you are Pigeon holed into certain tasks for the duration of the project.

Advice to Senior Management – I would suggest re-evaluating the promotions within the firm. Certain employees were promoted faster than others but not deserving of the promotion. I noticed some very talented APM's that were not promoted to PM's even though they were tasked with PM responsibilities.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Webcor Builders

Pros – Webcor overall treated its employees fairly well. The compensation was reasonable and bonus were given out year prior to the bad economic times. The job presented itself with good challanges making coming to work fun most of the time.

Cons – A lot of people didnt carry their weight and rested on past accomplishments. Some were treated more favorable due to relationships with upper management and some areas of the project were not given enough resources to accomplish their job. There was talk of things to do for fun that many times didnt materialize due to the work load.

Advice to Senior Management – Webcor needs to diversify now that economic times are tough. I believe they will struggle but can do it if they are willing to do jobs for less of a fee, which of course is difficult because it becomes a gamble since they will be entering new territory. Most of management seems to be fairly wise so I think they will come back as a dominant contractor in CA.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Webcor Builders

Pros – energetic environment, met some good people

Cons – demanding, no long term vision for me

Advice to Senior Management – take more time with your people

Current Employee – been working at Webcor Builders

Pros – Access to many opportunities, great projects, and some of the best people in the business.

Cons – Relatively large company so sometimes your voice isn't heard as quickly as you may wish. However, once your voice is heard, typically positive results are achieved, as everyone up the ladder wants the company to succeed.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep doing what you're doing, and look forward to continued success at this great company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Webcor Builders

Pros – Like at any job, your experience is highly dependent on the project and team you are placed on. That being said, I was on a team with irreparably damaged relationships, and I in turn had an experience that was less than stellar at the company. However, I did see that throughout the company, there were many type-a, very focused and hard-working individuals who were rewarded for their hardwork and dedication to the company.

Cons – As others have said, there was also quite a lot of favoritism within the company. Many are promoted due to their personalities and their politicing, rather than for their skill and knowledge. This leads to disjointedness in management quality of projects.

Current Employee – been working at Webcor Builders

Pros – The recession forced the company to downsize, but the resulting and current roster is a true “A-team” of talented employees, all well deserving of their positions.

Progressive, innovative, and forward thinking - the CEO is very in tune with the latest construction industry trends. Webcor is always looking for ways to build smarter and faster while maintaining their outstanding quality and safety record. They embrace computer technology and building information modeling (BIM) which gives them a major edge on the competing “old school” contractors.

Good work life balance (at least by construction industry standards). There are a number of employees who participate in the 12+ hours a day, 6 days a week behavior, but they are few and far between. Most employees appear to be happy, have healthy marriages, and maintain quality lives/interests outside of the company. A potential employee with a family who is looking for a challenging and meaningful career, but also interested in maintaining the quality of his life won’t find a better company.

Cons – It seems that most employees, regardless of competency never truly advance out of the worker bee ranks. Competition for the Director (the head-honcho on a Webcor job) and above positions is fierce and you have to be a serious prodigy with a major Type-A corporate minded personality to become one. There are many talented level-headed employees in this company who would be operating at much higher positions in other smaller companies where there is less competition and levels of bureaucracy. *People choose certain working environments for their own reasons – and the above “con” will not be an issue if you are able to peace with it. It’s a common large company dynamic and is probably the same at any other company of this size.

Easy to get pigeon holed into doing one single task or managing one single aspect of a large job for a long period of time.

Atmosphere at times is rather stuffy, sterile and seems to lack company pride and spirit.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep it up! This is a great company and I will recommend it to potential job seekers. My only advice would be to watch how top heavy the organization gets and to embrace your lower-tier positions (e.g. PE’s, APM’s, etc.) more. It seems that for every 1 Project Engineer, there are 3-4 Directors and/or Vice Presidents who seem to get all of the attention and credit.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend