SAM Companies reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(185 total reviews)
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Christopher M. Solomon

60% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

SAM Companies has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 185 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SAM Companies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).

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185 reviews
1.0
Apr 21, 2019

Run Away, fast

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Pros

Some very good staff members and well, Austin

Cons

Horrible executive management, owned by venture capital firm that drive every decision on profit first, impact last. Everyone Eng Tech and above has to sign non compete and company will sue you if you leave to work for anyone they think is or could be a competitor. Turned in notice, they show letter says cant work for anyone within 200 miles of any SAM office or they will sue, virtually eliminates all of eastern USA companies. As soon as they find out who offered you, they send offering company letter threatening to sue them also. Learned they have sued more than a dozen employees since 2014 and almost as many companies for offering SAM employees better pay and benefits. On your last day, they hand you a letter from company attorney saying for the next two years if you talk to another SAM employee about work or if you talk to any company SAM has or wants to perform work for they will sue you.

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SAM Companies Response
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At SAM, we are proud to be recognized as an innovative leader in our industry and we challenge ourselves day in and day out to raise the bar even higher. Our commitment to continued advancement requires a tremendous investment in progressive technology paired with talented and dedicated people that turn creative ideas into reality. When a team member joins SAM, we openly share new concepts, progressive ideas and proprietary information and processes because we believe that trust, teamwork, and transparency enables employees to flourish in their careers at SAM and this, in turn, helps to drive our collective success. Like most companies in highly competitive marketplaces that deploy advanced technology, we do ask our employees to preserve any proprietary information obtained while they are employed with SAM and not disclose it after they have taken employment elsewhere. We understand that there are times when an employee’s needs and ours are not aligned. If that time comes, we thank them for their service and wish them success in their new endeavors. As part of a standard separation packet, we provide our employees with a copy of any proprietary information agreement they signed when they began at SAM, as a reminder of the agreement they made when joining our Company. It is unfortunate you feel the way you do; we respect your decision to move on, and we ask employees that decide to leave our SAM Companies to respect and keep their promises under any written agreements they made with our Companies to safeguard the work our teams strive so hard to achieve.
2.0
Dec 6, 2017

Office Technician

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Respectable 401k match, relatively laid-back corporate atmosphere.

Cons

Duplicitous management who seeks to exploit their employees for the absolute bottom dollar. Will task employees with upper-level criteria work without accompanied promotional incentive nor contractual obligations. They sell additional hourly workload to sell an idea of time-and-a-half pay though everything is a loose sell on hollow ambiguities.

2.0
May 21, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

As for pipeline survey companies they held prestige for having permanent positions and generally taking care of its people. Although you did work about twice as hard as for other pipeline companies.

Cons

After a down turn in the market and outside investment, the company has basically come of the rails. Lay offs, lack of direction, and increased pressure on employees make this a challenging workplace.

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