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I worked for this builder for just under 6 months and am surprised they are still in business. The management changes like a revolving door. They had a decent d.m. and replaced him with a joke who is not loyal, unethical and clearly insane. It got to the point where all the staff could not stand management and their demands that the staff turnover is higher than practially any other builder in the market. The company wants you to work 10-12 hours a day and micromanages you to the point you cannot get anything accomplished. You would think after 2 years in the market and 50 years in business they would know what they are doing.
If you want to work for a company that builds a lousey product, has terrible management and you cannot make any money than this is the place for you.
The company turn over is absurd and the way they treat their employees at times inhumane.
The company frowns upon vacation and will not allow you to take vacation requests during many times of the year. When you try to discuss the vacation policy or any other policy, management brushes you aside.
I can not say enough about my negative experiences with this company. Management is so unorganized and uneducated it will make your head spin. I have never in my life been witness to turnover the way I saw at this company. I worked for the company for less then 2 years and had 16 managers. When I left (after less then 2 years of employment) there were only 2 sales counselors who had been there for longer...nobody in their right mind would stay with this company if they had a choice. As a very educated person it is apparent to me that I would be doing myself and injustice by remaining with this company.
I have been witness to the hiring and firing of so many people I can't count. If you have enough guts to stand up for yourself at this company they will fire you. If you are a puppet willing to let others craft and manipulate your every move then by all means, this is the job for you. Also, if you have no life...at Portrait Homes they value their employees so much that they require them to work from 10:30 in the morning until 9:00 at night. Don't be fooled by what your compensation agreement says, they have it written so they can change things at any time and you are held hostage.
Lastly, aside from a select few, choosing to work at Portrait Homes is choosing to work with some of the biggest snakes in the industry. Watch out, if you take vacation time or sick time you may have your customer stolen or better yet be fired!
I have to say, on behalf of me and my fellow employees that are stuck at this job...DON'T work for Portrait Homes and I don't recommend living in one unless you want to hear everything your neighbors say and does. I worked there, I saw every warranty request. Leaking windows, backed up sewers, bad wiring, and missing insulation...just to name a few. BEWARE OF PORTRAIT HOMES!
Forger about vacation time, you won't have any!
Bizarre, topsy-turvy, clueless, are great words to describe this excuse for a builder. Portrait Homes builds nationally and they have been in business for about 50 years, so you would think that this company knows what they are doing. That is very wrong. Portrait Homes in the Texas market functions like a start-up company which has no idea what they are doing. Management is not very intelligent or experienced, so if you are of decent intelligence, working here is extremely annoying. Management is in love with meetings and regular Saturday morning pep-rallies--basically you have to come to work an hour early. They also micromanage here. You have to review EVERY single prospect with management, fill out a weekly report noting things like every single phone call you made, to who the phone call was made, and what the phone call was about. They go as far as hiring independent traffic counters (b/c they don’t trust salespeople to report the correct traffic).
It’s funny that they are so obsessed with these details that they fail to notice the big picture--that their product sucks. When I was with this company, 2/3 of their neighborhoods had about 20 inventory homes that had been sitting for a while. And I am not exaggerating. When I joined this company they had hired about 6 of us together. About two months later, only one person is still with the company. The product and company just sucks that bad.