Granite Construction Inc Employer Reviews

This is no Silicon Valley hot-shot place to work. But, if you miss working in a place with old-fashioned and honest-to-goodness ethics and strong values, then you will love this place. They can be antiquated at times. Sometimes it's charming, but otherwise it can be frustrating. If you are an operations-type professional, like an engineer or project – more... manager, you will find an environment that will be fun to work at. Administrative types may struggle with the environment and lack of appreciation in some areas, but not all. The management has changed a lot over the last 5-ish years. Some say it's good and others aren't so sure.

In balance a good company. – less

Granite Construction was a great place to work.
Treated their employees like family.
Vacation important to Granite for self time
Weekly or more meetings in a week for communicatio

Managers don't know how to treat employees and appreciate their good workers.... they don't give good training but expect that u complete the work in time. Also when your reviews are due they never on time 3 to 6 month late and if u get an increase is like .20 cents. Not worth it for all the work you have.

Granite is a fast passed company with multiple projects going at the same time. Job requirements always change and the need for testers was at a high need. I have learned most everything of my testing skills for materials while I was at Granite. Long hours and long weeks of working during the summer was a normal. Usually the hours in the summer were – more... in the 60 hrs a week range, sometimes to 70 hrs. Hours in the winter was a constant 40, so home life was not impeded. Management was good, and sometimes overwhelmed with all the different projects they were overseeing. Unfortunately there is not a lot of advancements offered. – less

Very busy, creative, detailed job.

Being able to assist with all aspects of the day to day business.

Safety is an essential part of the job and what the company does.

Very good company to work for, Foreman rebuilding highways.

Granite Construction is a great place to work, if you don't want a life outside of your job. The hours are long and the compensation doesn't make up for it.

The people in Granite are great, but the management could use some work. There seems to be a major disconnect between most managers and their employees in that there is no motivation.

Their benefits – more... are great, but again compensation is below average.

They do construct a wide variety of projects that give employees an opportunity to learn about all different types of work which is great. – less

Long hard work for thr season then you get layed off for winter.

Have worked here for several different seasons, as a company that has grown, it has lost its eyes on how to treat its employees in the field. where you were known by name, you are now treated as a number
All companies big or small have there good and bad points but being a Foreman the last 10 years Operator for 23 years, I never forget that it is the – more... ability and the cooperation of your fellow employees that get these kind of jobs done, on time and safely and run smoothly.
Not one person alone completes the jobs at hand on there own and nor can they take all the credit, it is a team effort and should be thanked from the top to the bottom – less

This company is amazing! I never had a typical day at Granite Construction. My day would consist of learning new processes and policies. I assisted each part of our office, with accounts receivable, accounts payable, pre-liens, filing, answering phones, making deposits, processing mail, etc. My supervisor was a great mentor and really took the time – more... to teach me how to be a valuable assist in the office.

I left Granite to move to Oregon and be close to my family. I miss this company and everyone I worked with. It really is an amazing company to work for. – less

It was part of the job of almost getting run over, Otherwise I got to be outside.

I had a lot of different jobs to preform. My coworkers were always pleasant to be around.

Great job that was very challenging and rewarding. It was enjoyable to feel like you had a part in building and things that will be part of the comunity for years to come.

Granite has not only taught me so much about the culture of the company but has taught me a lot about myself as an individual. This company has made it possible for employees to advance in all positions. Granite cares so much about their employees and it was possible to be happy going to work every day.

i worked out in the scale house it has it's busy day's and it's slow day's. the program i worked with most of the time is APEX, apex is a software that the company uses for the scales to weigh in and weigh out trucks, i work alone in the scale house.

A great company and great people to work with. They taught me alot and created many new oppertunities for me. The hardest thing was the hours and traveling with out notice but we made it work and learned from it.

• 8 – 10 hour work days and many weekends, staffing, estimating, scheduling, project execution, project costing and forecasting.

• Gained the knowledge associated with championing the coupling of a non union contracting entity with a nationally strong union company under forced conditions.

• Management was lightly tiered, directly accountable to regional – more... manager, reporting continued to Branch Manager and ceased at corporate VP.

• A cohesive group of hand picked craft with unparalleled work ethic.

• Recommending the association between the Mother company and the recently acquire firm to operate autonomously.

• Monitoring and communicating the philosophical challenges of the associated firms while keeping the bottom line BLACK. – less

Good company with a family-oriented culture. Fortune 500 company, nation wide, but has a small community feel.

Granite is a great place to work. Had a good team until a new CIO practically destroyed the IT department with dishonest practices. He was replace 2 years after I quit.

Good people to work for, very good atmosphere. Learned alot of new things.