Great if you plan to get out quick - Anonymous employee Build.com Employee Review

2.0
Dec 22, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

This company is the perfect place to work if you're a new college grad. It gives you the opportunity to test out a lot of different roles if you're not quite sure what you want to do for your career yet. If you're looking for a short term and more social work experience then this is perfect for you. The employees that work here are so passionate, which makes it an exciting place to work at first. Friedland being gone is the best decision this company has made in years, so there could be a lot of good things coming for Build.com once they can get their management team figured out.

Cons

Short term is all that you can expect from Build.com. Expecting to build your career here and actually advance through the company is pointless. They only give the high up positions to external hires, but then don't train them, then end up firing them about 6-12 months later. They don't pay their employees fairly, HR's main focus is party planning, and the disorganization and lack of structure causes a ton of unnecessary, wasted time and stress. People get away with a lot more than they should and one of the main lessons i learned here was to "cover my a**" if I wanted to keep my job. It is not abnormal to be bullied or put down here... and even when the issue is taken to HR - nothing is done about it.

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Build.com Response
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I'm sorry your experience at Build was poor in the end. We are a company of constantly trying new things and sometimes that change can be very difficult and not well received by all. Chris led us to $1 Billion, and was profitable every step of the way. We couldn't have done it without him. We hire from within primarily, and also hire externally when appropriate. It's a balance, but the opportunity for advancement is quite different than you portray. We very much care about our employees and are always trying new things to show that appreciation. I am sorry your experience with management and HR was different.

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Cons

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My manager is excellent. She promote work life balance and the inclusiveness of the team. She understands that life happens and something’s are beyond our control. She encourages honest opinions and frustrations to be shared so she can do what she can to help with that. The pay is decent but does not equal the amount of work on a daily between excessive emails and 40 plus calls a day. Working remote is a plus as a single mother with very little help it allows me to get my kids on and off the bus and take them to appointments as needed. There is a lot of internal support in the form of share point.

Cons

Now to the bad. There seems to be very little upward mobility for long time employees. There are a lot of recent changes occurring with the merging of Ferguson and not all of it is good. The showroom employees are not on the same page as we are on how certain returns work and that causes a lot of confusion and discord with the customers which those of us on the phones have to deal with. There is plenty of lateral movement but that would require having to go to a whole new manager and start over learning their way of doing things. The same expectations are not across the board in all departments as far as responding in a timely manor to direct messages or even responding at all. CE is the low man on the totem pole and made to feel that way with the daily operations and not given the same respect as others in the company. The shift bid process is arcane and should be based off of seniority not KPI. All of the calls do not require “qualifying”. We have to deal with a lot of rude entitled customers when telling them no to something just to pass them over to OOTP and they get their way anyway 9 out of 10 times. And most importantly they changed over the phone system and Genesys is awful. Multiple dropped calls daily and zero visibility for our daily adherence to make sure we are on track to stay within our 85% required schedule. I am very good at my job I used to enjoy being able to fix the complex issues I come in contact with daily and now it follows me to bed worrying what’s coming next.

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