Great team support but communication and career path issues hinder growth - Anonymous employee NCCER Employee Review

NCCER has a great mission to educate people and provide them career opportunities in the construction industry. A big majority of the people who work here are kind, helpful, hard-working and always happy to support their co-workers. The benefits (especially retirement and health savings accounts) are great. The office is very nice. There’s an on-site gym. They provide snacks and coffee. They do an employee lunch or happy hour once every couple months.

The work environment is not for everyone. If you have traditional employability traits (reliability, strong work ethic, prefer to work in-person, not overly focused on maximizing time off, etc.) you will do well and have opportunities to move up. If you need to work remotely or believe a company should allow you to take 2 or 3 months of time off every year, it will not be a good fit for you.

The people who actually do the work are fantastic

The upper management + ELT need a serious reality check to get with the times. They are not paying people enough or giving them the flexibility they need to be remote - so of course people are leaving and jobs aren’t being filled. Then instead of showing the people who stay respect, they kick them while they’re down. More work, no acknowledgement, and vindictive managers. On top of that, employees are actively dissuaded from using their benefits (the “flex” pto is a joke) when they already don’t get paid enough. This place allows toxic leadership to thrive and pull their direct reports down to get ahead. The CEO openly disparages entire teams and departments and shows clear favoritism to people that don’t know basic communication skills. The rest of the upper management are tone deaf and don’t advocate for their employees. I could go on and on, but the bottom line is that the company’s culture and outlook are failing fast because the CEO and select upper management are too busy trying to make themselves look good instead of actively trying to fix the problems that they have caused.