Pros
Things I like about working at ConstructConnect:
1. The people. From a people perspective, this is the best place I have ever worked. I enjoy working for my boss and working with my co-workers.
2. The outlook for the company. We have made a number of investments in new technology, AI enhanced products, and new team members. These are beginning to pay off and the trajectory for this growth to continue is the best since I have been here.
3. People first attitude. We went through a CEO change recently. We had a great CEO in Matt Strazza. I was concerned when he was transferred to a different Roper company (Roper owns our company and many others). Buck Brody has stepped into the CEO role and has not made any significant changes. While the jury is still out, I am encouraged that the culture has not changed.
4. Transparency. We have monthly Town Halls, both for the company and my department. Information about what we are doing well, new ideas, and things we could do better are shared openly and honestly. I have never worked in a place that tells all the employees each month how we are doing - from hiring to company initiatives to sales. It is very empowering.
5. Ability to work in an office when desired but the flexibility to work from home too. I like being with my team in person from time to time. And we are getting a new office in Atlanta. But I also value being able to work from home most of the time.
6. Leadership. I work in the Product Development team and our leaders seem to have a direction that they are taking the group. We have improved in a number of ways in the last couple years - we deploy more often, have a higher quality product, and solve more interesting problems than we did in the past. And the leaders seem to care about me, as a person.
7. Innovation. We have regularly scheduled periods of innovation at the end of each quarter where employees are allowed to work on whatever they want. I have seen groups of people who normally do not work with each other come together to build new and exciting things, learn about new technologies, and generally become better at this jobs. I have never worked in a place where innovation was a regular part of my work.
8. My opinion counts. Team members are regularly asked what they think about potential changes. Team members are able to participate in proof-of-concepts and in what things are chosen for our teams to work with (a first for me in a company of this size). And the company regularly solicits feedback via Gallup surveys. The best part is the company seems to pay attention to what I say on these surveys.
Cons
Obviously, not everything at ConstructConnect is perfect.
1. It takes too long to hire new team members. We have a number of open positions on my team and seem to be very picky about who we hire. Maybe that's good - the people that have joined our teams are better than they used to be. But my team would be better off if we went faster.
2. We still have several old products. We haven't retired some of the older platforms and nobody wants to work on them.
3. We have some employees who have been here a long time that do not seem to want to do things differently. Teams with many newer employees seem to be better than teams with many employees who have been here a long time.
4. Compensation and benefits are not what they could be. I guess everyone wants to make more money but the raises are not always great, especially after talking about the sales records we seem to regularly hit.
