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Advocate Construction

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Advocate Construction reviews

4.1

78% would recommend to a friend

(149 total reviews)
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Doug Cooper

85% approve of CEO

78% positive business outlook

Advocate Construction has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 149 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Advocate Construction employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.6 stars).

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149 reviews
5.0
Jan 21, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Your effort and time directly results in how much you earn. Management is always willing to help, as long as you are willing to ask. Plenty of room for growth.

Cons

Takes some time to settle into an efficient schedule.

1.0
Jul 18, 2018

Sales

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There is none.. They sell you a bill of goods and don’t follow through.. I left and so did 2 other salesman.. One was a veteran and a top salesman in the company... They wouldn’t invoice the insurance company and jobs would be done for weeks and you couldn’t get your commission until insurance company paid.. I’d run from this company!!! I wasn’t paid for any of my jobs and either was the Veteran who worked for them... If they aren’t willing to pay a veteran for the work that was sold do you really think they are going to pay you... They also call all employees when they get a bad review on here and tell them to write good reviews about the company.. I talked to several employees who they asked to do that after there last bad review...

Cons

Run!!!!! Run Run Run Run

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Advocate Construction Response
7y
I would like to start by thanking you for your service to our company. We were disappointed to hear of your resignation because we felt that, although you had a long way to go with understanding how the insurance restoration process works on a seasonal basis, you showed great promise for the short time that you were here. However, we are grateful that you chose to resign as opposed to continue to work with such sour feelings in your heart. Our organization works better when our employees are engaged and committed to their work of serving our customers and make an effort to see the company as an organization that is improved by their contributions rather than a personal ATM machine. As for the “selling a bill of goods and don’t follow through”. We have experienced exponential growth every year we have been in business. We have added 40 people to our employee headcount this year alone. We now employ over 100 people in 5 states. The delays experienced in our accounting department with respect to invoicing are a symptom of the message we continue to deliver to everyone, and its that we are growing and that we have and abundance of income, personal and professional growth opportunities. As an organization, we are following through on our promises. This brief delay in invoicing is a result of our significant growth once again. With respect to the claim that we do not pay commissions, in 2017, we paid over $6M in salary and commissions to our sales team, many of whom are veteran sales people who have been with us for multiple seasons or who have performed so well that they’ve earned promotions. We are absolutely committed to paying our employees. When someone resigns, the have chosen to end the employment relationship. It is generally understood that when you quit, you stop getting paid. With all of that being said, we care about the satisfaction of our employees and we care about our Glassdoor reviews. We always want the Glassdoor community to be able to see the full picture of our culture. It should not be a surprise to anyone that when we get a poor Glassdoor review, that we reflect on the feedback, then circle back with our employees to see if the experience posted is reflective of the company in general and when it is not, we ask for people to share a more accurate and widely shared feeling of working here.
1.0
Mar 25, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I was able to work from home and maintained a good work/life balance as a result. I automated most of the tasks assigned to me and could have automated the entire Legal Dept., but this company prefers inefficiency and redundancy over innovation and progress. All of their contracts are contingency contracts and very easy to beat/argue against if you're a homeowner feeling swindled by them.

Cons

I worked under the direct supervision of someone in the C-Suite who is slow to understand things, quick to overreact to them, and even quicker to blame his problems on someone else. They would call me frequently (sometimes up to 20 times in a day) just to tell me things they had already told me, or to share information which had nothing to do with the job or my role at the company. They once called me three separate times to lament to me for over an hour (each call) about a problem they created and could not figure out how to solve...I wish I was kidding. Additionally, I was told by this person that it would take "years" for me to get "up to speed" at the company because it had taken them at least 2.5 years to do so, but it took me maybe 2.5 months, and then the role became extremely boring. I was and am more capable than my former boss is, which was evident very early on at my time with Advocate. Unfortunately for Advocate, instead of realizing the value they had by hiring an attorney with an MBA for a legal assistant role, they minimized me and my tasks while simultaneously, and I am directly quoting my former boss here, "taking advantage of the fact that you can do lawyer tasks for assistant pay". Obviously, that didn't sit well with me, nor did the fact that my former boss lies frequently to everyone about their compensation plan, and had me doing the entirety of the work that directly led to an increase in their pay, not mine. They received (and continues to receive) a cut of every dollar the company was able to recoup from my demand letter efforts. I automated that entire portion of their role, and could have taken over the entirety of their role for less money, and automated those tasks as well. I added the value of increased efficiency, decreased redundant communication, and advanced technological skills which were far superior to theirs. Considering I, and I alone, helped the company recover over a million dollars in the 10 months I was there, they also could have done the normal thing and offered me a separation agreement and severance payment when I left, but they chose not to.

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Advocate Construction Response
2y
Thank you for the feedback. We’re grateful to hear that you enjoyed our work-from-anywhere approach to corporate operations and that you were able to benefit from the balance our culture affords. Your comments remind us of how important it is to have mutual respect for a healthy working relationship. We wish you the best on your employment journey.
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