Hal Hays Construction Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"It was a pay check.....if you wanted to age meat the coldness here was hard to beat. That and the Christmas party where once a year the ownership acted like human beings"

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

"It's a pay check..... in this economy it beats unemployment... but not by much."

What don't you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"The coldness and constant feeling of expend-ability......I almost lasted 2 years. This is the only company I ever worked for that hired a top Management team and wouldn't let them manage. That and constantly defending the Company Reputation. Can you say Going out of Business"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stop pretending you know something......Trust your Employees.....Quit Looking for the cheap way out, you really have to spend money to make money.....Make your HR person respond to requests for time off sooner than the day of the request. Go back into the Logging Business."

What do you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"There are some great people in the field that I was honored to meet and work with."

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

"Don't. Turnover is high (3 months) and benefits are poor. Unfortunately, this company is not doing well."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"File for bankruptcy while you still have time and learn from your mistakes. You cannot under bid every project, skimp on labor/equipment/material resources and think you deserve a profit."

What do you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"The irony if this organization must be the best appreciation, if you appreciate irony. They hire you, you have high hopes. You will leave your current, consistent employment for a promise of excellence with a great team, then they will terminate your existence once the management find it to their advantage, usually in defense of liquidated damages, a result of their own ignorance."

What don't you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"The ignorance of the company is extraordinary. The fact that they remain in existence is dumbfounding, However, this fact will not sustain for long. The truth of their business practices will come to light. The carefree style of dedicating on their trade contractors, to the point of putting them out of business to steal any profit to save their butt. The fraudulent holding of false retention and reporting to the government that all is happy is the wonderful world of OZ will succumb to the truth and they will pay. This is a corrupt organization that has more attrition than Marine Boot camp during Vietnam. They will gladly hire you to the account of a substantial career, then drop you as an excuse to save their own culo."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"My suggestion would be directly to the upper management, Treat your employees, as the team they are. These people count on you more than you realize. Do not satisfy your personal low self esteem or personal inadequacies. To the owner, what you have allowed to be done under your command is shameful."

What do you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"The few honest hard working people that do work in this company and the friends I have made. We have all banded together and lean on each other for support in this difficult working environment."

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

"Just walk away."

What don't you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"The owners. They never show positive reinforcement to their employees, only belittle them and embarrass them in front of other employees."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They need to re-evaluate their work ethics and realize its only going to get worse from here on out, even with the many law suits and high turn-over, I am surprised that little has been done to correct the owners of their foolish business running ways."

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

"If you need the money and or experience than go for it. Other than that don't leave your current job. Turn over is amazingly high here."

What don't you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"Management is horrible. Other than the owner there is no one there employed more than 4 years."

"Keep on looking - don't apply here!"

What do you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"If you enjoy drama and seeing how things are DONE INCORRECTLY, then this is your place to work."

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

"Don't do it!"

What don't you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"The incredible paranoia of upper management. They trust the wrong people and never give trust worthy employees room to breathe. If you don't want to spy for them, don't bother with job security."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Do the right thing and fire the person who brings the problems to the company or get out of the construction business altogether. If you can't do it right, don't do it at all!"

"Work 60 hrs or go home."

What do you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"When I started with the HHCI it was a good place to be because it was a big family and management some what cared about his village of people that worked for him."

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

"Be prepared to work a ton of hours and get nothing in return."

What don't you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"HHCI does not care for your wellbeing or family; don't ask for a day off or you will pay for it in the long run or ask for a vacation because you wont get it. As the company became this huge bully they became distant from what the real goal of the company was and became very greedy."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"My suggestion to management is to maybe learn what is supposed to be done in the field instead of just barking orders that don't matter. It all starts at the with the top 5, they do not know how to do the things in the field and will not train you just fire you and get the next guy willing to bend over and do back flips for them."

What do you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"I made some friends there. There are decent restaurants near enough to work to have a good lunch without worrying about being fired for taking long lunches."

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

"If my first tip of Don't doesn't properly sink in, here are a few suggestions for the ideal employee at HHCI:Be a sycophantic suck-up with no spine.Be willing to work twice as many hours as you are compensated for.Be accepting and courteous when you are berated by the owner, his wife, or anyone else who shares their surname.Give up the right to be offended by sexist and racist comments, no matter how severe.Under no circumstances call anything to the attention of senior management that would lead them to believe that you do not worship the ground on which they walk."

What don't you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"I was classified as overtime exempt without being paid the CA state minimum for overtime exemption. I was used as a scapegoat for any and all computer malfunctions, including all untrained-user/operator errors. Even after confessing to my terrible claustrophobia, I was placed in an office that was previously used as a storage closet, with no windows and inadequate ventilation, and even after working a minimum of 50 hours a week for my six months there without ever being paid overtime, I was fired for lack of customer service the day I returned to work from my honeymoon. They also did not pay me for reporting to work that day. After being handed my walking papers by HR, the owner threatened my personal safety as I was leaving the building, if anything happens to my network."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I suggest that management mutiny the owners and begin treating employees as something better than the indentured servants they currently seem to be."

"Horrible."

What do you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"Pays more than unemployment I guess.... They finally got rid of the HR guy that makes sexist comments about girls all day."

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

"Make sure it's your only opportunity."

What don't you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"Not much to like. Benefits are horrible, Pay is worse, micro management. Absolutely zero attention to employee needs. Don't plan on taking any vacation or personal time with out management resentment. It's a flippin' circus. If you want medical for your family for under a house payment don't look here. Don't get me started on turnnover."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Start by hiring some management."

"HHCI is a wonderful place to work."

What do you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"I love working at HHCI. The company is growing enormously, and is a great place for the go-getters! It is a high stress environment mainly because the line of work we are in. The best part of working at HHCI is the family vibe they give off. Hal has helped me more than one time when I was in a crunch, Allen is a motivating boss who knows how to bring out the best in someone, and Denise has been nothing but kind and warm-hearted to me. The people that make up the company are a great asset to the business. There are many non-management people as well that really help build the rock-solid foundation that HHCI has."

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

"Bring your A game. Your best effort is expected."

What don't you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"The one knock on the company, in my opinion, is that they have a few office people out of position, and it seems like they give too many second chances to people, especially the IT and HR departments. I ask for things to be done and it takes days, sometimes weeks to get the request carried out from HR or IT."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Continue to do what you do and help the people in the company grow!"

"Terrible place to work."

What do you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"I work with some nice people."

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

"Take the job only if you're unemployed and need to pay bills!!!!"

What don't you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"The daily mistreatment of employees, management is extremely incompetent and just plain rude."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Treat unto others as you want to be treated!!"

What do you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"Nothing, but it's a job for now."

What don't you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"They treat their people like dirt."

"Exceptional company."

What do you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"Potential for growth!"

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

"Be Honest. Don't lie and say you are capable of something that you're not!"

What don't you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"Long hours but in the end it is worth it!"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep up the good work!"

"Hal Hays Construction is a good place to work."

What do you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"I like just about everything."

What don't you like about working at Hal Hays Construction?

"Upper management is very busy and it is hard to get their follow through/ follow up sometimes."