Decent Company with Toxic Leadership - Anonymous employee McCarthy Building Employee Review

3.0
31 May 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- ESOP - Fun coworkers (mostly)

Cons

- Extremely toxic inner circle. HR is a complete joke. Leadership plays favorites. You can be a hard worker but if you're not liked by the right people, you will never move up. Everyone knows about the inner circle, and once you're in it, you're absolutely untouchable no matter what you do. - Sexual harassment is pretty rampant here but nothing happens. It gets swept under the rug. - Lack of accountability - Underpaid. The company leans too heavily on the ESOP as an excuse to underpay workers. - Recently, the company has been making bad business decisions. I worry the future of the company is not as bright and promising as it once was.

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Cons

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Pros

Great company culture, exposure to some amazing projects, project teams are fantastic, camaraderie with your team, great resources and onboarding to ensure you learn to do your job well. ESOP and bonuses are great.. if you stick it out long enough.

Cons

Pay is not as competitive as other GC's, you can be relatively underpaid as they rely too heavily on preaching about the ESOP (which takes you 5 years to even be fully vested). Can be very political and leadership kinda plays favorites, some people who dont deserve it get promoted quick and others who do deserve it never get promoted. Long work hours and depending on the jobsite it can be pretty high-stress (but thats just construction for ya).

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