Pros
- “Unlimited” PTO. This is without a doubt the best part of NCCER, but your experience with will vary greatly on who your direct supervisor is. Company boasts it as a selling point but it can quickly become an issue if you take what is deemed as “too much” time off. - 401K, retirement, and health insurance options are great. - Yearly, birthday, and anniversary bonuses. Amount will vary depending on tenure and position in the company. - Some phenomenal people here from entry-level to executive leadership. - NCCER has an important mission that does impact the lives of many and the future of the construction industry. - On-site gym and nature trails
Cons
- You will be gaslit, bullied, lied to, and blamed. Particularly the by the CEO. - Office morale and culture is terrible. I would equate it to World War 1 trench warfare. - Obvious bias against employees under the age of 40 from CEO and certain members of ELT - Don’t get too attached to the people next to you, because half of them will be gone within 12 months. - CEO sends HR to do a head count of people in cubes, mandatory daily sign-ins, and the CEO will watch who leaves the parking lot and when. - CEO has had several documented instances of blowups against departments or individuals, but HR (bless them for the impossible position they’re put in) has their hands tied and nothing ever happens. - If you speak up or defend yourself or others, you will be fired, punished or targeted. - Toxic positivity will be the response when you bring up issues with upcoming projects to executive leadership, but you will be expected to figure it out with no direction or clear goal. - Pay structure makes no sense. You will have individuals on the same team with similar experience levels and talents, but one is somehow making $10,000+ more than the other. Remote employee salaries are substantially more than in-office employees. - Remote/hybrid policy is a joke. If you aren’t in one of the ordained positions, or one of the “chosen”, you are expected in office every single day. People who live 60+ miles away have been forced to come in daily, while “chosen” individuals who live nearby are given full remote. Company doesn’t follow it’s own policy that’s in the employee handbook. - Blatant favoritism and nepotism plague this company. - Nearly every project will exceed expected budget by multiples. - Salaries are exceedingly low for many positions in the company, far below national or state averages. Under $45,000. - You will take on responsibilities that are out of your job scope and department, while whole departments or individuals in positions who should be doing the work are somehow absolved of all responsibility or blame, leading you to think: “If I’m the one doing this, what is that entire department/individual doing?” Spoiler alert: they’re doing nothing. - Insane amounts of turnover - No firm vision for many projects. You will be given no direction, conflicting orders, and the expectations will be either unstated or unreasonable. Somehow, you will complete that project to the best of you and your team’s ability just to be told: “we don’t like it.” Without specific feedback on what to improve or how to fix it. - Bad word of mouth (justified), bad office morale, and low salaries affects pool for open positions and local applicants. This leads to the company hiring more remote people, and giving them much higher salaries while in-office people are given no flexibility and significantly lower salaries.
