Can be a great place if you work it right - Anonymous employee Build.com Employee Review

3.0
16 Jun 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you start out at a position you do not like and are active in researching other roles, asking questions, and shadowing, it is easy to find a spot that will make you happy. But, you have to try and show you are serious.

Cons

Management tends to make decisions without thinking of the overwhelming repercussions. This has led to a lot of negative changes in the tone of the sales center, forcing reps to choose a "turn and burn" style for their calls, making customer service suffer quite a bit, which leads to more escalations and more busy work for everyone.

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Build.com Response
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Great feedback, and fair points made. We are a sales focused culture, but the crux of a great sales culture are salespeople that care for, and take care of customers. We take the latter to be a fundamental truth, but perhaps aren't communicating it clearly enough. We will do better. To further make things more difficult, we're a bit short on headcount right now. We're recruiting right now, and ideally will have a new hiring class starting in August to pick up some of the slack. Thanks for your feedback.

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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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