Holder Construction reviews

After 6 years of being with Holder, the culture they talk about is not all there. A lot of the jobs that I have worked on were already behind when I walked onsite. At that point, it’s just get it done, sink or swim. Higher management comes in to help push things along, wanting to point out to everyone what should have happened, or questions like, why did we do it like this, why didn’t we do this etc?.... My question is where were you months ago, taking the time to walk with us or looking for potential issues that could arise later or close to the end of the job, show or share your experience to teach, No mentoring from anyone because everyone is so busy trying to catch up with the end date. If you ask for a day or two off for a family reason,depending on who it is, doesn’t happen unless it’s a loss of a family member, which at that, they will still call and ask when your coming back. My last job was 80+ hours a week out of town away from my family. They care about their selves and no one else unless you let them run over you. Do not expect a life if you work in the field for this company! Not sure about the office side.

Generally I am not a person that goes by negative reviews because most negative reviews are by people that had a bad experience, but let me tell you this is not the case. Yes, I had a bad experience but this is not a negative review out of anger, it is to inform the people that are applying and to help them avoid what I went through. To start off, they have a horrible turn over rate. Typically pre construction engineers don’t last longer than 2 years. The company likes hiring straight out of college because they shape employees their way and it’s helpful to hire people that practically doesn’t know how other companies work. An intern can do your job…. There are two sides, you can be either on the burned off, working too much, being on your manager good side or being on your manager bad side, having a work-life balance, and barely getting any projects. Anyone can be a manager so anyone with no manager skills are managers. All the main leads are white old men that want to act young, the environment has 0% maturity, if you don’t go to their activities you’re on their bad side. 0 trust, you can’t work from home without a doctor (similar) excuse. Happy hours are a must or you’re seen as an outsider. 0 diversity. You have to agree to everything they talk about if not, you’re on their bad side. Long story short if you’re on their bad side, they make an excuse and push you to the point you need to quit.