You will LOVE it here.. at first! - Anonymous employee Build.com Employee Review

2.0
Jun 26, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Interesting work Great perks Casual fridays with beer Games Expensive toilets

Cons

Compensation is a complete joke. If you're applying here, you are NOT making a career move.. Build.com is merely a stepping stone and they will pay accordingly (which is way below industry standards, yet still livable for Chico) Tight cliques to crack into.. Prepare to shed your true self in order to conform to the maximum extent possible. Bye-bye work/life balance.. prepare to put in overtime as the norm. Even seasoned employees here are often hourly, not salaried. Time Off.. oh yeah that. Nope, not really. You will be working on a lot of commonly observed holidays. No sick leave for the first year (from what I can remember) Nepotism and favoritism.. You know what it is, and you will see it. You will not like it. It's more important here to conform and be loved, than to perform. The 5th company value needs to catch up to the current decade. Prepare to get fired if things aren't perpetually looking up. This is not a place for the "ups and downs" of life.. They're constantly churning through talented employees. Company culture seems great at first but it's VERY plastic and just plain showy. You are only recognized as the best version of yourself. Humans unfortunately don't work that way. Finally, you are there to sell toilets.. think about this seriously for a moment before you share a laugh about it with your recruiter.

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Build.com Response
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First off, thanks for the call out on the perks. We try and differentiate ourselves from other traditional employers by offering lots of perks, games, and a fun work environment. As far as your cons go. Yes, if we sugar coated during the hiring process we failed to communicate that expectations are high and work will be difficult, we failed you. I'll try and address all your issues one by one. First, for opening wages, we've indexed and yes we're above most baselines for starting wages. We are proud of that. As far as cliques go, with over 600 employees, I can promise you that we are not a heterogeneous society! Programmers and salespeople have much different challenges and schedules so you rarely see someone as a pro account manager hanging out with a DBA. Sorry you didn't feel like the company represented what you saw whe nyou started. As far as it being hard to work here and requiring a lot, again we may have failed you in the interviewing process, as even on of our values is work hard / play hard. If you're looking for a position that doesn't require hard work, we likely aren't a good fit for you... As far as your advice to management, during my "How to get ahead" training at Build.com, I try and make it very clear that it is difficult to excel in our company without speaking up. I can't apologize for that as we let everyone know up front. If you want a job to do the minimum, keep your head down, expect proactive promotions, and things to happen for you organically, we likely weren't a good fit for you, and your warnings to others are legitimate. It is very unlikely that the company will change dramatically enough to accommodate what you are looking for in an employer, and I hope you find a place somewhere that suits you well! Thank you for the revivew, its never easy to provide critical feedback.

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