Great Company to work for - Email Marketing Specialist Build.com Employee Review

5.0
Sep 26, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

They care about you, your life, and your family. The culture is very much about helping you to succeed as long as you're willing to ask questions, communicate your needs effectively, and take ownership of your mistakes. There are so many different types of jobs offered at Build, and even if you start in an entry-level position, there's no limit to the direction or department you can take your career.

Cons

Middle management in the sales center is still actively working on ironing out the kinks with communicating expectations to their employees. However, they still hold themselves accountable to this and willingly acknowledge their opportunity for growth. There have been a ton of big level changes in the company over the last few years, and thus an expected amount of growing pains with that. Our change in CEO has been clutch. However, for those who favored the frat-boy, lackluster atmosphere from before, these changes have proven difficult to adjust to. If you're adaptable, you will succeed. If your attitude is negative, you will not. Management in other departments such as Marketing, Design, SoDev, Tech, and Data seems to be much more seasoned.

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5.0
Nov 18, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The most transparent and supportive company I've ever worked for. Generous with bonuses and raises. Management will support your growth within the company and paint you a path to get where you want to go

Cons

There isn't a single con that I experienced except for how I was let go. Recent raises, praises, never took a day off and even corporate recognition only a few weeks before my firing.

3.0
Aug 6, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

My manager is excellent. She promote work life balance and the inclusiveness of the team. She understands that life happens and something’s are beyond our control. She encourages honest opinions and frustrations to be shared so she can do what she can to help with that. The pay is decent but does not equal the amount of work on a daily between excessive emails and 40 plus calls a day. Working remote is a plus as a single mother with very little help it allows me to get my kids on and off the bus and take them to appointments as needed. There is a lot of internal support in the form of share point.

Cons

Now to the bad. There seems to be very little upward mobility for long time employees. There are a lot of recent changes occurring with the merging of Ferguson and not all of it is good. The showroom employees are not on the same page as we are on how certain returns work and that causes a lot of confusion and discord with the customers which those of us on the phones have to deal with. There is plenty of lateral movement but that would require having to go to a whole new manager and start over learning their way of doing things. The same expectations are not across the board in all departments as far as responding in a timely manor to direct messages or even responding at all. CE is the low man on the totem pole and made to feel that way with the daily operations and not given the same respect as others in the company. The shift bid process is arcane and should be based off of seniority not KPI. All of the calls do not require “qualifying”. We have to deal with a lot of rude entitled customers when telling them no to something just to pass them over to OOTP and they get their way anyway 9 out of 10 times. And most importantly they changed over the phone system and Genesys is awful. Multiple dropped calls daily and zero visibility for our daily adherence to make sure we are on track to stay within our 85% required schedule. I am very good at my job I used to enjoy being able to fix the complex issues I come in contact with daily and now it follows me to bed worrying what’s coming next.

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