Great beginning, stayed too long - Anonymous employee Ferguson Employee Review

3.0
Aug 6, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Ferguson offers such a wide variety of products, that you learn a great deal. They expect you to be the best in the industry, and offer trainings to help you get there. As a consultant, the commission pay is generous. You have tons of opportunities to meet, and work with the building industries’s finest suppliers.

Cons

Although, the pay is good, they offer no type of documentation demonstrating that you are being paid accurately or fairly. There is no limit to what you are expected to produce. Your goal is unreachable. With that comes no work life balance. The calls, & emails are round the clock, and unless you have an assistant, you must work at home to not drown. That is the norm, and management does nothing to help or change the round the clock hours. Speaking of management, there is a high turnover in that department, and with every manager comes new promises that are never kept. They like to tout promotions, but during my long stay there, I constantly witnessed the qualified being passed over for the BFF. I would say that it’s a great first job, but most people get stuck there. I have NEVER seen a company with such unhappy employees as Ferguson!!!

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

None, I would say remote work but it’s very toxic.

Cons

Poor leadership (manager and director), poor communication, poor training, unrealistic m expectations, micromanagement, no SOPs, lack of structure, FLSA violations, no upfront disclosure of what role is, stingy management. People outside of HR are great. In HR? They’re happy to lay people off and talk about it so casually during meetings. Think “it’s our yearly layoffs” and joking about catching people “slipping”. No opportunities for growth despite saying there was during interviews. Interview and reality are worlds apart. No diversity. Severe control issues. No new people have been hired in over 3 years yet multiple people have left so people are burnout. One person handles all of one process alone and management thinks that’s ok. For reference the same process takes 10-11 associates in the same sized org. I can go on. Stay away!!!

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