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Common Sail Investment Group

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Decent place to work if you're in the right department - Team Lead Common Sail Investment Group Employee Review

3.0
Sep 7, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The company has grown a lot, so there are some good opportunities to move around to different positions. The new office they have off of Nemco is nice though they have to keep buying up surrounding units because space is at a premium. Kitchen area is nice, they provide some basic snacks and drinks for everyone, and they order a lot of catering for meetings and there's usually leftovers if you want. Depending on your department there can be some nice soft benefits like flexible start times, I'd get there anywhere between 7-9 and work my 8 hours. Pretty diverse age range of people, so it shouldn't be too hard to find some coworkers to connect with. If your job involves traveling to the properties they have a stipend, a pretty good mileage policy if you drive, and a company plane if you plan the times right. I loved a lot of the people there and made a lot of friends.

Cons

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.

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Common Sail Investment Group Response
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Hello, Thank you for leaving feedback on Common Sail Investment Group. We are happy to learn that you find our growing company to offer many opportunities to our team and that you could make a lot of friends in our workspace. As a growing company, we agree that our teams have to be excited for change, positive in their mindset, and acclimate as opportunities arise. We definitely promote our 1440 culture as aspirational, as we are not perfect and never claimed to be. We do want to create an environment that promotes a work-life balance that our employees will appreciate and are open to suggestions on how we can do this more effectively. We encourage all our employees to come to their leader if they are experiencing burnout or anything else that their leader exists to support them with. If they don't feel comfortable going to their leader directly, they should reach out directly to our HR team. We think that your experience working at Common Sail Investment Group could be helpful to expand on if we can connect directly. If you would like to help us improve, please reach out to Pam Hayes at (810) 220-2655.

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Cons

There are no cons I can think of.

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