Centex Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Centex has merged w/Pulte Homes"

What do you like about working at Centex?

"The training"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Politics, Politics,"

What don't you like about working at Centex?

"Politics"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"don't promote your buddy"

"The best job I ever had!"

What do you like about working at Centex?

"I enjoy working in the construction industry and I enjoyed the income."

What don't you like about working at Centex?

"I did not like how much the industry depended on the market and economy, but there's not a lot I can do about that."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"If you have an opening bring me back. Other than that, keep up the good work."

"When the economy started to change and Management was let go due to lack of revenue the company had significant problems and lack of structure."

What do you like about working at Centex?

"I liked that I was selected to create the Online Sales position due to my computer experience and successful sales process. It was nice to be recognized from them for all of the hard work and they were great with rewarded employees for a good well done."

What don't you like about working at Centex?

"Management started to hire friends and not qualified individuals to hold high positions. This inexperience created a lot of problems. A friend was hired to be my partner and I was forced to share all commissions. I have no problem sharing if equal work is done but I ended up doing all of the work which was frustrating."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make sure an individual is hired for merit and not because of who they know."

"Good place to hang"

What do you like about working at Centex?

"The continuous training and availibility to learn and grow as an employee. Good recruitment of talent."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be confident, but not overly confident. Make sure your facts are straight."

What don't you like about working at Centex?

"My family life suffers, I work 50-60 hours a week to cover both QA and LP. Pay is extremely low for performing two management jobs, with little or no raises for a two year period, even if performance is exemplerary."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Change the cost of living and pay increase process. With cost of living raising 4-5% a year, a max of 2%, more like a 1% raise is not nearly enough. This especially goes when the company is spending billions to buy more companies."

What do you like about working at Centex?

"The people and the pace of the work"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"be yourself"

What don't you like about working at Centex?

"Didnt have any bad experiences"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"keep improving and using your teams talents to move forward"

"It was a fun dynamic place to work."

What do you like about working at Centex?

"I really enjoyed the management team and their ongoing training during the market changes."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"None they are no longer in business"

What don't you like about working at Centex?

"The products were not as competitive as our competition"

"Correspondent Lending Division was shut down a year later after it was created"

What do you like about working at Centex?

"I enjoyed the travel and organizing the due dilligence teams for on site reviews and large bulk trade purchases"

What don't you like about working at Centex?

"Senior mangement was never comfortable with the correspondnet lending division"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Their strong suit is building homes"

"Good"

What do you like about working at Centex?

"The job security, the oppurtunities to advance."

What don't you like about working at Centex?

"The way that they restructed the entire Managment department."

"It was plesant"

What do you like about working at Centex?

"Every day was different with client changing plans."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Not at this time"

What don't you like about working at Centex?

"There was really nothing to not like about working there."

What do you like about working at Centex?

"helping people save their homes or refi"

What don't you like about working at Centex?

"their management and processing"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"more support to their employees"

"This company provided a stepping stone for me to advance in the mortgage business."

What do you like about working at Centex?

"I appreciated the opportunity they provided as my first mortgage position in 1993. I was also employed briefly in 2000/2001 prior to employment with Countrywide Home Loans, now known as Bank of America Home Loans. This company was the first to teach me about post closing."

"Excellent"

What do you like about working at Centex?

"An Excellent Learning Environment. An excellent opportunity for growth."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Have a drive to excell."

What don't you like about working at Centex?

"There was nothing I disliked about working with Centex Homes."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Continue to promote a customer valued environment."

"the company has gone bankrupt"

What do you like about working at Centex?

"nothing"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"don't"

What don't you like about working at Centex?

"Upper management were thieves."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Quit before you go to jail"

"One of the most challengeing roles of my career, and one of the most fulfilling. Unfortunately senior leadership was not sales focused."

What do you like about working at Centex?

"Enjoyed the challenge of insuring Centex's sales success through role as mortgage partner, then ultimately responsible for sales execution through mortgage programs."

What don't you like about working at Centex?

"Senior leadership focused on efficiency rather than sales, and did not understand that buying and financing real estate involves emotional decisions. This lead to company failure."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Focus on sales and use mortgage programs to insure sales success. Payment often drive sales, and in a more fixed rate, fully qualified world, focusing on offering lower payments is often the most effective sales strategy."

What do you like about working at Centex?

"Was able to start a satellite branch in brevard county for them and operate it"

What don't you like about working at Centex?

"My manager left, corporate cleaned house, brought in all new people, they closed my branch"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"they are closed"