Keep Looking - Anonymous employee Veros Real Estate Solutions Employee Review

The cons are many. There is not a great company culture that emphasizes employee empowerment, growth or retention. They have employees that have been there quite a long time and I believe it is their age and a mix of what they view as acceptable from an employer that keeps them there. Most of those people, I expect will retire from there. It is more aligned with "let us see how much you can produce" or what is your output level under stressors that include micromanagement, lack of clear goals, no formal performance review process, resources to succeed, overload of work, rigid expectations with little or what seems like forced flexibility - just to name a few. It is my belief that leadership and culture are a huge part of what keeps talent in an organization and prevents high turn around, among other things of course. The culture, in my time there, seems toxic across all departments. Leadership's lack of transparency and engagement with what employees are experiencing creates a very stressful environment across many levels and departments. People have to work when they are sick or in conditions that the company won't accommodate to if you experience chronic symptoms of some kind. I do not understand the lack of flexibility here especially when it is raised or supported by a medical letter. Sometimes, it seems like a very sad social experience that I would like to dive into in terms of why people stay here, but they keep you so busy, you lose any real sense of wanting to be a part of the organization and immediately enact boundaries with the time you have to spend there. The WFH situation for people who live closer to the office is vague and dependent on Manager/Director approval. Each one will blame other leadership on having you physically in the office 3-5 days. The company pretends it wants to improve in terms of operations by influencing the use of Agile methodologies, adopting certain platforms to introduce to teams for PM and other use. You'll quickly see how fragmented this is. It is more like a facade that by having these, they are actually adopting an "agile" and flexible approach to improving as a company. Human Resources is staffed by a director and a recruiter. Their follow-up to business or employee-related requests or even to their own meetings, will be delayed, if they do respond. From speaking with several employees, they seem very dismissive of personal matters. I understand they are there to protect the business but usually there is some tendency to engage in what I would call employee development/empowerment. Like I said there is no real formal or even published way to promote employee performance evaluations. From what I gather, most employees in recent years have received 3% or less which is very unfortunate in this economy. In general, not isolated to HR, I would say Veros is probably not interested in your career development, your personal self, but rather your output. Don't think you will be respected or valued at the individual level. You are there to provide them with something. As long as you keep that in mind and don't have a problem with this type of culture, you will be fine. But there are so many other employers and cultures that are not like this and I guess that is why it is hard for me to accept being ok with it since I have had quite different experiences. Especially with COVID, a lot of companies realize the value of allowing the individual to take care of themselves and their family and empowering them in their career by providing flexible schedules and formal policies that support work-life balance and much clearer ways on how you can develop professional in their settings. This is not one of them.