Turner Construction reviews about "upper management"

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4.0
19 Feb 2025
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Pros

Great coworkers, kind and hard working colleagues, smart people

Cons

long hours, weekend work, hard to climb the corporate ladder. DEI applies to lower levels. upper management not supportive, and cares less and less about individual workers

4.0
16 Feb 2024
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Pros

They pay very well have great benefits.

Cons

Upper management will set you up to fail and expect you to figure out the details.

1.0
20 Sept 2025

They Will Hate You

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Pros

Cool projects, the field guys are the best part

Cons

Upper management is extremely toxic and polarizing. Facists, who will hate you if you believe traditional conservative values or even just love America and reject the woke ideological sickness that has permeated every fabric of society. Openly hostile towards anything that goes against mainstream leftist. It’s okay to be activist if it’s for a terrorist organizations like Hamas or BLM but as soon as you reject “Equity over Equality” , I loved pretending and taking their money though

4.0
17 May 2026

Turner

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Pros

- Opportunity to prove yourself and to establish relationships present themselves early. - Accessible upper management

Cons

Con for some - you will need to advocate for yourself to get what you want. Once you’re heard, action and change is swift and decisive.

4.0
10 Apr 2024
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Pros

People, structure, employee engagement, events

Cons

Salary, upper management, market economy.

2.0
8 May 2025

Weird culture

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Pros

I was able to pay my bills.

Cons

In one word: weird. Leadership culture feels disconnected and performative. Managers often act one way in front of executives and entirely differently with staff: a sign of inconsistent values and poor integrity. There’s little to no mentorship culture; most managers don’t seem interested or equipped to mentor, and instead rely on caricaturing the company values, “optics,” and “perception” when interacting upwards. There’s no cultural continuity between job sites. It’s a gamble whether you land with a PM who’s solid (usually because they came from somewhere else) or someone who just reinforces the weird status-quo. The main office recently moved from Miami to Miramar, which management said was to “centralize” it between staff and jobsites… everyone knows they just wanted to cut rent (and save for their self-designed interior renovations, which might be nice if the office wasn’t in the middle of nowhere. It has no foot traffic and requires 20ish employees (mostly based in and hired from Miami) to commute hours to take video calls… day in, day out, the same 20ish employees warehoused in the middle of nowhere taking video calls. Worse yet, after moving to Miramar, the work-from-home policy was cut to “improve culture,” but no mentoring or meaningful interaction actually happens… just weird silence in a painfully open concept office. Leadership seems uninterested in engaging with or developing the people under them, ironically, considering how hard they championed for the return-to-office policies. Upward mobility is hard to achieve, or really even want, since there are too many middle managers with questionable character as it is. It seems like they’re more interested in trading on politics, scarcity, and the “sorry I’m unavailable, busy, booked, out-of-office, commuting to a client’s office in Miami” look to give the appearance of an authority status. It’s hard to feel inspired or bought into ivory castles. It’s also hard to tell whether they think they’re above mentoring, or just don’t know how to do it. Maybe it’s both. Either way, it adds up to a weird, tone-deaf approach that discourages growth and connection. This feedback is not solicited or welcome by the new GM, who is very proud of his new role and new office. He’s a nice guy personally, but many do not think he was ready for this role. Power, especially in the middle of nowhere, has a funny way of revealing character. Upper HQ management, good as it may be, is too disconnected due to too many layers of middle management to see what’s going on, especially since all those layers are putting on their best performance for them every time they visit the office. I’m sure this Miami experience is not unique to Miami. Maybe that’s just how corporate life goes.

5.0
26 Mar 2024

Fine

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Pros

Main office is nice Good Pay and benefits

Cons

Not very diverse in upper management

3.0
20 Jun 2024
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Pros

pretty good projects but not the most high profile in the Houston market

Cons

not a lot of support from the upper management down to the field level

1.0
18 Jun 2025
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Pros

Lots of free meals and high visibility projects

Cons

No room for growth No transparency from upper management Very poor compensation compared to industry standard

2.0
28 Jan 2025
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Pros

Good money and good benefits

Cons

Very long hours, HR is not on your side in the slightest bit, you will not be promoted based on skill but based on how close you are to upper management

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