McCarthy Building reviews

4.3

82% would recommend to a friend

(743 total reviews)
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Ray Sedey

97% approve of CEO

89% positive business outlook

McCarthy Building has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 743 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The McCarthy Building 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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743 reviews
5.0
Dec 23, 2015

Great Company with Unbeatable Benefits

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Employee owned company. Top notch organization with an excellent track record. Amazing benefit package that is on par with or better than the best in the industry. Training and people development is a top priority.

Cons

Very high expectations for employees. If you aren't a driven individual that gets results you will be weeded out. Work can be very spread out an require lots of travel.

5.0
Dec 22, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Large, fast, bleeding edge construction company. Sizable enough to move around if you want and advance up. Plenty of support for day to day tasks. Unbelievable benefits.

Cons

Large, you can get lost in the crowd if you don't try and stand out or don't fit right in the company culture. Sometimes small project teams so you may be stuck with people you don't mesh well with.

3.0
Nov 25, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

A lot of the employees really believe and follow a family working philosophy, given you're not working alongside a bad one. The company has been adapting more of a philosophy for caring for the employee over the last years, things like health incentives and benefits. It feels like an employee run company, but with obvious upper management made significant decisions. Company has a good amount of perks,like ESOP, bonuses (sometimes), all in all- above average. Some leadership is realistically open to accept changes. The company is actively pursuing and getting work.

Cons

Work - Life balance, sometimes 80+ hr a week. I see some people put in reviews this is normal. But that's not true. Quality / Timeliness of delivering "products" is what leading construction companies expect - a Big impact of this is efficiency. A lot, not all, of McCarthy Leadership are stuck in the philosophy "if you're not spending the time, it's not enough". And that philosophy trickles down onto jobs and sections of offices. The main culprits of creating this, are longer-term employees who have reached forms of leadership - some don't belong there but are "vested".. McCarthy has been evolving rules, procedures, programs, divisions, etc.. Very few employees or leadership have a good grasp on these, or have enough understanding to develop this in other employees. Depending on your leadership or job, you'll face a significant amount of problems and get weighed down heavily in these. Jobs are usually spread too thin. The company doesn't have enough talent retention to properly staff jobs/positions usually, which again is not normal. Usually this is covered up by stating "we don't have the budget for it".

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