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FirstService Residential

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Lots of Changes - Beware - Anonymous employee FirstService Residential Employee Review

2.0
Dec 19, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of employees with shared experiences and common interests. I've met some great people at the company and am still friends with many. Also, the expectations for my job were fairly low, so work life balance was good in that sense.

Cons

The CEO is restructuring and laying off employees. Due to the layoffs, employee morale appears low among those I've kept in touch with. There was no announcement as to why, so can only assume it's to reduce cost and increase profitability and stock price. It's a big company and I witnessed corporate politics and "left arm doesn't know what the right arm is doing" frequently. Doing a good job can be secondary to who you know, in my experience. Also, leadership makes decisions that seem disconnected from the challenges employees were facing, based on what I observed. Leaders who I would joke around with and go to lunch with regularly suddenly turn their back and pretend they never knew you when David initiates a layoff in your department. They're always hiring, which could raise some questions about employee turnover. Last, my salary was approx. 20% lower than what I'm seeing in the job market currently.

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5.0
Jun 26, 2026
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Pros

Great atmosphere, friendly coworkers. I like working this position, it pays well and the work is reasonable.

Cons

I can not think of any, i’m very optimistic so it is hard for me to find something wrong.

2.0
Jun 26, 2026
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Pros

They take good care of the office people

Cons

Field workers are second hand citizens. Nepotism by language. Promote people that don't have the skill sets to do the job. The people that have the common sense to be leadership at this point don't want the responsibility anymore. What does that say?

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