Pros
- Holder does an excellent job in giving people opportunity if you go after it. No one is going to hand you your next assignment or task, rather you will need to go out of your way to pave your own path. This is great if you are a self-starter and a go-getter. Your career is limitless if you fit that mold. - The tight knit teams that are created on project sites is a great way to meet new people and immerse yourself with others over a common goal. Most all teams work well together and achieve some amazing results on projects. - Holder affords you the ability to work on very high-profile and high-technology based jobs across the country. If you love to work on really cool and complex projects, this is the place for you! - There are many innitatives being built at Holder and everyone is welcome to engage and participate. You are afforded the ability to help mold some of those initiatives.
Cons
- The cost for health benefits is extremely high compared to others in the market. - Leaders are very out of touch with how employees actually feel on issues surrounding work-life balance, integrity and internal office politics. - There is always a sense of competition among peers to out perform one another for the next rasie or promotion. This can be good or bad depending on your personality, but overall it seems this causes riffs in some teams. - When getting re-located from one project to another, moving is a hassle and you get very little time, if any, to prepare your personal life for the transition to the next project. (Albeit, Holder does have a great partner to physically pack your things and move them - but sometimes you are given only 1 week to pick up your life and move.) - There is very little transparency with people under the Manager level, the big things such as profit and projections are shared, but a lot of times some of the more meaningful information is lost in the riff of day to day and employees find out about new policies only when they are expected to implement it. - Associate feedback is very inconsistent and many times not given all together (all depends on your Manager, it is not standardized - this works well for some and not for others.) - If you do not fit the mold of the Holder ideal person, you will struggle to fit into the company culture. This in effect trains those who do not fit that mold to quit rather than persevere and develop further. (The comapny has made an effort to address this and it is implemented by some departments and ignored by others - no consitency.) - As you move from project to project, your Manager and Director will be different and there will be many challanges to adjusting to their style. They do not cater to you, it will be the employees responsibility to read into what they want to deliver based on these different expectations. This becomes a major issue when you are working 10-12 hour days and unable to meet the already high standard. - The projects are staffed way too lean. This is addressed over and over again as employees work to the bone to achieve sometimes unrealistic goals set by the company leadership in order to win projects. - Growth in the company is directly tied to the Director and Managers you work under. Growth conversations are not based on accomplishments or metrics. Promotions are based on how well you are liked on your project. This causes major career set-backs for those that have differing work styles than those that manage them.
