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3.3

54% would recommend to a friend

(99 total reviews)

Bart Mitchell

53% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Community Builders has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 99 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Community Builders employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Real Estate industry (3.8 stars).

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99 reviews
1.0
Dec 27, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The dwindling number of talented and committed employees trying to execute an honorable mission.

Cons

The company is a train wreck caused by senior executives without their head in the day-to-day game. The sick corporate culture operates and thrives on nepotism that retains, rewards and defends incompetent, dysfunctional and abusive employees. HR is used as a tool to ferret out those who report abuse who are then reported to highest levels of senior leadership team and a case is ultimately built for termination on fabricated performance issues or when that is impossible, they make it too miserable to stay. Numerous frustrated employees put up an anonymous blog to expose but senior team members swarmed all over it with snitches-get-stitches posts and internal emails. Every data management system has been dismantled. Attempts been underway for years to replace them with illogically complicated and useless data operational systems and process and procedures that are too time-consuming to manage with current staff. Without adequate planning for staff and talent, none of the systems have ever been able to fully-implement. Internal data is unreliable, corrupt or lost. Employees are treated like dirt. They are unable to detain employees long enough to train them to do their job. Employees who have been with the company for decades have left or are looking. No HR exit interviews/no paper trail. Management of the disaster is being damage-controlled by the hiring of a public relations/communications team of five who incessantly create marketing materials stating how much the company wants to be "an employer of choice", and "create sustainable communities where all families can achieve their full potential". They keep claiming they want diversity but only focus on black and white. Evidence that diversity includes Hispanic, Asian, Italian other ethnic cultures or the elderly population it is supposed to serve is non-existent.

1.0
Sep 27, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Really great people throughout the company, at some point the diversity seemed like it was genuine. Annual party we could meet really interesting people that you dialog with daily, I miss some of our leadership who have left. There were strong leaders but they left. Bart is innovative but lacks the ability to call out bull at the top

Cons

Where do I begin. I've never seen executive man agent jump out of windows so fast, nepotism, to be a large company the culture is so backwards it appears no one in upper management really understand how things are actually done onsite. Leadership was a joke, jealousy, but advancement given to the select few. The politics are so bad it was obvious that "certain people" make it. The cloak of diversity and inclusion was such a farce, I was so disappointed in this the most. It is a good place for white men and women to thrive. No support for management, no training available they began doing 3 day trainings for new hires recently but the company has been around since the 1960's what? No accountability for middle and upper management, layers of obstructions getting things done and approved. No integrity in business, lies, non responsive accounting, asset management, the issues that your good employees face they require support but don't receive any t, I spent my entire 2 years fighting and defending myself and team. I had 4 regionals in less than a year. 2 Executive level VPs left without even providing notice! Wow what does this say about the company? I learned so much how bad t to treat people, which is actually a positive for me.

1.0
Sep 23, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some of the Residents, the Owner Representative of the CDC and the Resident Service Specialists. The Maintenance tech is a good man.

Cons

Everything about the company. This company doesn't value their employees, at all. In the Philadelphia Area Management is the Worst. Low pay very heavy workload with no help from supervisor.

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Community Builders Response
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From your comments, it is clear that your relationship with your supervisor was not a good one. We are working as an organization to provide more training to managers in a variety of areas. As it relates to valuing employees, over the past 12-18 months TCB has taken a number of steps to continue to demonstrate how we value our employees. These include implementation of a new TCB minimum wage, a quarterly bonus program in property management, and increasing the company match for the 403b plan. We also survey employees so that we can get feedback and ideas regarding how we should look at improving the company culture.
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