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Faith Technologies Incorporated

This is a great place for those who wish to travel and get through an apprenticeship as quickly as possible and move on.  Most projects require travel, so if a person is young and has no family and no desire to have a life outside of work, it's a good place to make a lot of money for a few years.  Those who travel are expected to work 50-60 hours per week and are "allowed" to go home one weekend a month.  The apprenticeship used to be good, but now it is online, which is great for someone who just wants to get it done and doesn't care if they get anything out of it.  It's also difficult to get quality on the job training, as there is a lack of experienced employees that have the time to be in the field and teach. Those who don't wish to travel will be pressured and guilted into it, as the data center projects always fall behind and expect everyone to drop everything and go help.  Office employees are treated as disposable assets.  Bonuses for them have largely been eliminated, and pay raises are 3% a year. Some office employees are also expected to be available 6 days a week, usually 6am to 6pm since projects are working those hours and meeting happen randomly during those hours.

Monetary incentives are lacking compared to other companies, which has resulted in a large turnover.  Doesn't matter how great of a review a person has, their pay raise will not reflect it.  I've had amazing annual reviews, and still only got a 3% raise.  There is no effort to even try to retain quality employees and many are leaving for better pay and bonuses elsewhere.  The 401(K) match is only 3%, and is only deposited quarterly if the executive team agrees to it.  The profit sharing/gainshare for field employees is almost impossible to get and depends on the employee and the job-site meeting a long list of requirements, many of which are out of their control.  I have yet to meet a field employee that has gotten a gainshare payout recently.

Field leadership is frustrating in that they are only concerned about spending as little money as possible in order to make as much profit as possible.  This means often not having the right tools for the job and using sub-standard and outdated practices to complete projects.  When more efficient and better ideas are presented, they are almost always shot down if there is any upfront cost to establish them into the workflow, even if it produces a better outcome and will save hours in the long-run.

The executive team seems more focused on their shady accounting and lining their own pockets.  There is a 600 acre corporate ranch, two corporate planes, and a 40 acre executive lake house and corporate jet in the works.  The lake house is being built on land owned by the CEO and his family, not the company, so presumably they will lease it back to the company.  All while telling employees there is not enough pre-tax profit to authorize a yearly bonus, even though bonuses are factored into the benefit package. Faith only seems to chase large projects that have impossible deadlines and require everyone to put in more hours than they are compensated for in order to meet client needs, only to get told that it didn't make enough profit for any sort of bonus or profit sharing.

This is no longer a career company, unless the person is related to someone on the executive team. 

FTI is a great company if you are working remotely out of your home or in the office.  As a field employee it is not a career company.  The pay is great, the company has very good insurance, excellent benefits, however, it comes at a cost.  FTI does not care about work/life balance and family life.  The actions most certainly don't match the words and "culture" that is promoted.  Most field employees are not energetic, not happy and seem depressed.  Majority of FTI's profit comes from very large travel projects across the US.  So expect to be asked to travel to these sites.  Once there you will work 6-days/week, sometimes 7 almost always 10-12 hour shifts.  Also, expect that to be mandatory.  When holidays approach you will work extra mandatory hours before and after the holiday to "make up" for lost time when employees are away from the site.  The schedules change wildly, sometimes including night shifts and all with little notice to upcoming changes.  It can be a great way to make money if you are single, willing to endure hardship, want to travel and making money is the sole purpose of your existence. However, it is not sustainable as a career.  Most employees I know plan to or already have left the company once a certain mark has been achieved, i.e. complete apprenticeship, obtain license, save certain amount of money, etc...  FTI would otherwise be such a great company to work for and they have lots of talented individuals throughout all ranks.  Unfortunately, the company takes advantage of that talent, overworks the individuals and the rate of burnout and departure from the company is ever increasing.   

Management is good. They walk the jobsite daily and insure good quality work and safety. Alot of great apprentices working here learning every day. Some journeyman are questionable. You can definitely tell who has come up with faith and who got hired in by their safety culture and overall quality of work. My only problem is they dont like giving raises. They claim to be a “merit based company” and “merit to the core” yet they refuse to give merit raises. The only time you will get a raise is a classification change or the yearly cost of living increase (normally about 25-50 cents). Im currently an apprentice doing more journeyman work than anything. Im given people to teach how to run pipe and wire lights and I ask for a raise for doing more than what my 3rd year classification says I should do and know and they just tell me im doing a great job and all these great evaluations but there is no actual reward to it. Although they pay alot higher than any other company in my state but they will still pay apprentices with less experience and get worse evaluations higher just because they made the right friends. One of the core values at faith is “rewarding individuals that create team success”. Their “rewards” are words of encouragement not higher pay or bonuses.

In general, Faith Technologies is a great place to work.  The compensation levels are among the best in the industry to start with and benefits are comparable to other large electrical contractors.  The company has a great safety culture, and expects employees and managers to refuse work that is unsafe.  As the company has grown exponentially over the last two years, several issues have started to affect morale among the workforce.

 Unfortunately, communication is very poor between the office and field.  Executive management views field employees and foremen as a resource to accomplish their financial goals, but forget that their employees also have their own personal goals and aspirations to include taking proper care of their family.  Recently a workforce management department was setup to supersede Project Managers' responsibilities in managing their own crews.  Now it's commonplace for crews that have worked together for years to be split up and assigned to projects across the country with as little as a few days notice.

This company has taken a serious turn for the worse! 

I worked for this company for 20 years! In the early years, the company cared about the employee and their well being. Home life, quality of life. Travel was voluntary. PM's and managers cared about the crew members and would place them accordingly, to each individual's needs and talents. 1 and 5 years personal goals were able to be achieved. Job site morale was HIGH! Everyone worked as a well oiled team! "Climbing the ladder" and advancement was achieved when 1 and 5 year goals were reviewed. Mentoring was encouraged! 

Now, you will be all over the country. Travel is the norm. Forget mentoring. Most job sites have 60% or more temp help. Morale is low. 1 and 5 year goals, WHAT'S THAT? Work your butt off and keep your mouth shut! Your opinions of what is going wrong and need to be evaluated and changed are not considered. 

"Bait and switch" is the norm!!! What you agree road far as pay package, hours, and expectations change. When you arrive on the job site, expect differences when you are there. Most cannot afford to turn back around and stay for the new terms.

Lots of temp workers which makes it a hard environment.  Lots of workers from all over the u.s.  Lots of deception with the bonus paychecks which you are supposed to get if you beat the production goals by the project manager.  for 3 yrs i worked for this company only getting one bonus check.  Any normal company would be out of business.  Seems like the project managers fight over certain guys and territories for jobs.  I was told travel was rare also told company supervisors that my child had lots of medical issues.  I  was then told to either travel out of state or I would be terminated.  This was after 1.5 yrs working there.  You are clearly a number there and the company grows with huge profits because employess don't stand up for themselves.  One job I was on I had to pay 20.00 a month to park my car in the lot this was a unreimbursed employee expense.  Or had to buy lots of high end tools such as: drills, hammer drill, bandsaw, knock out set only to have a fellow employee steal some of my tools.

Faith Technologies is nothing more than a scam on the interview that will promise you the moon and the stars and everything in in between but whenever it comes time to actually deliver they don't they'll tell you that they will fly you do this job and pay for the flight home and all this day that the other and reality is they will not do that this is the most poorly managed company I've ever talk to do not work for these liars. In the first week before I even started they told me I was going to be in Wisconsin vintage is Oklahoma City to different flight itineraries and dates to show to the airport then changed it Missouri and then back to Oklahoma and then Katy Texas and I never got sent on any one of these jobs the truth is they're probably lying about having work and they just want to fill positions that they don't even have the work for. Seems to me like you're just trying to rob Peter to pay Paul from top to bottom hands down the poorest communication and management. Do not waste your time

Working for Faith has been a rewarding experience.  I would continue to work in this office, but due to downsizing the work I have been doing will be done by the main office in Wisconsin.  Each day is varied in duties.  Monday consists of payroll and reports, answering and transferring phone calls, updating spreadsheets, printing on the plotter printer or regular printing.  Each day brings on different duties, from Inventory reviews, reports to run, data entry, filing, opening new jobs, billing, closing jobs. Setting up permits.  The management at Faith has been valuable in promoting the information needed to be proficient in my job.  I am able to work with others or independently.  The hardest part of my job was not getting all the information in a timely manner to perform my job.  The most enjoyable part of my job was interaction with both co-workers and outside field workers.  Being able to flex my time and I have to say I loved getting to my job each day!.

Faith is only focused on data centers and keeping the office management happy. They will work you into the ground 7 days a week with no care for your well being.  Wen with the company for 5 years, and it gets worse and worse. It’s honestly turning into a cult, and they expect you to go above and beyond and still be happy about working insane hours. Been working 2 years straight with no promise of a weekend off. Faith will bend over for any customer and in return make their workers hate their jobs. However, great advancement opportunities and training facilities. Excellent culture and people to work with aside from the foreman and superintendents typically have no regard for their workers morale. Pay well if you’re traveling for per diem. Word of advice, NEVER go to a data center with Faith, just avoid. 

Faith Technologies is probably one of the worst and unstable companies I've worked for ever. The company decided to lay everyone off from out of state and "claim" they have a lack of work when they just signed a new contract with a new carrier. There way of paying us back for all the hard work and endless hours, weeks and weeks straight, was buying us a one way plane ticket home with NO NOTICE what so ever that we weren't coming back. Literally the day of my flight home was the day we found out that we were done. They force there employees to work weeks and weeks at a time illegally with NO BREAKS OR DAYS OFF. I would never recommend this company to ANYONE. There program managers don't care about anyone and will never answer there phone or call you back even if it's just a simple question. They will fill you with lies about the work or time off then once you start working it's a completely different world.

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