Common Sail Investment Group reviews

Once you hit a management/leadership level, you see the disarray at the executive level. CEO is a great cheerleader, and positive interaction when things are right, but beware if you disagree with him or there's the slightest problem with your group/team -- style reverts to 1950's mfg style. Is yelling and profanity really necessary? Also witnessed when some great people - and star performers - were cut loose and treated horribly. If you are not a long-time, buddy-w-execs employee you are definitely not treated equitably. Another challenge: HR team a revolving door for past few years. They had really good people in place for a while, but then put someone w.no HR experience in charge of HR and it blew up. Most recent HR leader is regarded as an arrogant, all-talk-no-action figurehead. This is realty an issue of CEO and COO not being able to trust anyone to run HR, and thus their poor decision-making when it comes to re-org and HR staff.

Lots of turn over. Some of it is burnout, but a lot of it is people being let go. The company likes to reinvent itself a lot whether that's through reorganizations or some shiny new system they try to roll out. It seemed like every time we'd start to get into a groove they'd shift gears and everything would get thrown into chaos again so much so that it became a running joke throughout the company. A lot of this is due to department managers, if you stay there long enough you can't help but notice it's a bit of a sycophant culture higher up. Anybody who speaks up too much or starts to raise concerns about how all the changes and lack of fixing/learning from past issues is affecting the department inevitably doesn't last too long which means a lot of the managers are pretty out of touch and decision averse. That chaos will likely also bleed into your personal life - the amount of overtime I ended up working due to lack of planning wasn't insignificant. A lot of it was also completely unnecessary, but the higher ups would just say "1440" and move on without actually addressing anything beyond an email saying they handled it. It's gotten so bad that some departments have been completely outsourced except for their leaders who everyone in the company knows aren't very good. With real estate being so expensive they've also recently shifted to acquiring communities rather than building them which make sense, but again the management is so unequipped to deal with the realities of what goes into the process and you can tell with the heavy toll it's taking on everybody there. Deadlines get set without much of any plan in place for how the transitions are going to work. There are no budgets so it's nearly impossible to plan for the future and how they'll get brought up to standard. Staff is already stretched so thin that training mostly falls through the cracks. And it's usually not just one property at a time, it's three or four. They also use their own internal HR company for all employee benefits/payroll and that company, despite also having great people, is a complete mess.