Energetic Environment with Great People - Anonymous employee Build.com Employee Review

4.0
Jul 8, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There is no one culture at Build, each department takes the main tenants and makes them their own. People will help you and give you information if you ask, but don't expect to be spoon-fed. When you demonstrate to others that you're there to do a good job and help, they will reward that. When you hear about cliques and untouchables, I don't feel that's what is really happening, but rather someone wasn't trying to help anybody but themselves.

Cons

The desire to not be a Big Dumb Company and make quick decisions that force even quicker actions ignores that fact that every decision we make has to scale up to where we are today as a company. The days of handing a new idea to a single person and letting them run with are gone. We don't always have the motivation or patience to do things the right way, that is getting a shared understanding across departments and then executing. We're getting there though. Some of the roles we have for people may be somewhat unique to Build and people might have trouble finding similar roles in other companies, thus thinking that there aren't good career opportunities. While this is somewhat accurate, if you just focus on the skills you accumulate and not the job titles that can be overcome.

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Build.com Response
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Thank you for the review. Very fair and balanced. We do try and fight back big dumb company syndrome and occasionally in favoring action over analysis, we build cool things that weren't meant to scale. We are improving but its a fair critique. We appreciate the review and will continue to work on communicating our strategy.

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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.

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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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