KB Home Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at KB Home?

"corporate structure. Growth"

What don't you like about working at KB Home?

"Micro Management"

What do you like about working at KB Home?

"A very Southern California quality builder. Good management and reasonable production schedules with the most excellent trade contractor available."

What don't you like about working at KB Home?

"Laid off after 9 years of solid production and quality run projects. I am/was a proven personality known for my talents with manpower,customers and inspectors."

What do you like about working at KB Home?

"Wonderful people. Being the sole artist, I had a wide variety of duties and worked with other departments."

"very bad place to work"

What don't you like about working at KB Home?

"bad work environment"

"KB Home was a great opportunity. Unfortunate that the economy reduced the work force greatly."

What do you like about working at KB Home?

"I am not currently employed with KB Home"

"Company has since filed bankruptcy. Heavy turnover of employees."

What do you like about working at KB Home?

"Ability to make decisions and react quickly."

What don't you like about working at KB Home?

"Heavy turnover in management (four supervisors in one year)."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Firm has since filed bankruptcy - recommend taking less market risks."

"New construction is not stable at this time."

What do you like about working at KB Home?

"Closing high $ homes, seeing new owners except keys to thier dreams"

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

"Compnay closed in Chicago area, they should re-invent at a latter date."

What don't you like about working at KB Home?

"C level executives changed often"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Sit out the slump, load personel with economy knowledge, sell to the public needs, not wants."

"Interesting"

What do you like about working at KB Home?

"Everything"

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

"Be professional, personable and knowledgable."

What don't you like about working at KB Home?

"Career advancement opportunity"

"Great"

What do you like about working at KB Home?

"It was a good place to work with great staff"

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

"You will love it."

What don't you like about working at KB Home?

"Bought out by Countrywide"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep up the good work"

"A good place to start your career in homebuilding"

What do you like about working at KB Home?

"Challenging work place. A good place to start your homebuilding career."

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

"Keep it real and honest."

What don't you like about working at KB Home?

"Work life balance. Require you to work hard, but at the same time, rewarding. Other builders are pretty much the same."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep on good work."

"A Learning Organization"

What do you like about working at KB Home?

"Environment"

What do you like about working at KB Home?

"Nothing,"

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

"Don't work in Atlanta."

What don't you like about working at KB Home?

"HR Manager and Management were discriminatory, Especially to blacks. They hired temps to do manual labor, and had even a pregnant woman and someone with a recent hysterectomy moving and lifting furniture part of the day, the company moved into a new building. I hold a master's degree and went there during a difficult time of job hunting hoping to find a permanent job. I took the entry test and passed. Yet, my qualifications were never considered. The temps had been told they would be doing clerical work. Only the white temps moved on to clerical work. The blacks were discontinued after the move."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They need a multicultural mixture of management, who operate without regard to race or culture."

What do you like about working at KB Home?

"Building the homes"

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

"they will promise things and not deliver"

What don't you like about working at KB Home?

"interference from incompetent people"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"choose your people by merit, not the buddy system."

"Overall a great company"

What do you like about working at KB Home?

"Great, competent people"

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

"Know your own resume backwards and forwards, be ready to answer tough questions, and know how to negotiate your salary."

What don't you like about working at KB Home?

"No backbone to the contracts written to contractors."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Charm school for PM's and Directors as well as management training for Superintendents"

"Wish I was still working for them."

What do you like about working at KB Home?

"They put their people first and that filters down to hoemowners and contractors. It was a true team fill when I was there."

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

"The wait is worth it. It may take some time to get back to you."