Equity Residential reviews

Dramatic cultural shift over last 3 years. Horrible investment officers who would previously not be tolerated were able to keep their jobs and were instead sent to "training" which they again failed (based on coworkers reviews). Sad state of affairs for a once great company. If you are salaried, you will work your fingers to the bone just to be rewarded with an annual raise of 0%. The most you can hope for is 3% every other year at best. That compensation strategy is now reflected in the attitudes of employees. No one gives 110% anymore and people are jumping ship left and right. All competitors pay more than Equity so they no longer attract top talent and they continually understaff. If you are considering working here, ask if your manager and / or immediate coworkers were ever sent to corporate coaching and if they were, RUN. Employer of last resort. There's a reason Avalon and Greystar come to Equity to poach....easy pickings.

The amount of exploitation that happens in this job in every single department, except of course for the ones all the way up in management, should be looked at and addressed asap before they lose more employees. We get over worked and severely underpaid and are somehow expected to keep going, I don’t think so. I’m surprised that the reviews on here are not as low as it should be. But then again they ask current employees to leave good reviews on here which you shouldn’t be trying to coerce us to do anything. They also asked us through email and in a nationwide meeting to vote on a bill in a certain way to benefit the business which is for sure illegal. Anytime we go to speak up or “question authority” one of our 10 ways you are automatically put under a microscope and get gaslit to think you are in the wrong for questioning them. They constantly tell us not to go over ten minutes of overtime but given the workload often times it is unavoidable. I’m seeing so many employees running on empty and little to no action being done to help us. Instead of solving the existing issues management finds a temporary solution, if you could even call it that, which causes more issues since they were never solved. They only started to actually “care” about diversity and inclusion in 2020 when this has been poorly handled historically and has just been poorly executed virtue signaling. Shame on all of you. There are no incentives as far as discounts go. They cut the already low discount we get on units and this happened during the pandemic. Speaking of the pandemic nothing was done to help except masks being provided since we still were expected to come into work even though almost all of our work can be done remotely. They always mention valuing their employees but it’s just lip service and no actual actions showing this. Training is a joke. Very minimal and you basically get thrown into the job and are expected to handle conversations you are not well equipped to have.