Equity Residential reviews

4.0

76% would recommend to a friend

(1,121 total reviews)
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Mark Parrell

87% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Equity Residential has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,121 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Equity Residential employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Real Estate industry (3.6 stars).

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1K reviews
3.0
Jan 27, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Equity has great training!! They have great recognition for hard work. The benefits are good. They promote work/life balance.

Cons

Most of the managers are not team players. It's not about what you know it's who you know to get promoted. Don't promote very many from within. The strong, personable, and hard working people of the company while I was there continued to leave one by one.

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Equity Residential Response
10y
We are so happy to hear that you value Equity's training, benefits, recognition programs and work/life balance. We see that you are still working for us and encourage you to contact our HR group in Southern California to discuss any concerns you may have regarding management. You can contact HR at 424-732-4230.
5.0
Jan 25, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

One of the best companies that I have ever worked for.

Cons

I really didn't have any complaints working for Equity.

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Equity Residential Response
10y
Thank you so much! We're thrilled to hear that you enjoyed your time with Equity.
4.0
Jan 17, 2016

Maintenance Manager

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Bonus, good turning,mentoring and programs.

Cons

Life-work balance, you have to do everything in house, just too stressful to keep up 365 days a year.

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Equity Residential Response
10y
Thank you for your feedback. We understand that we ask a lot of our talented maintenance teams but we know that they are more than capable of being able to take on the responsibilities they have earned. Maintaining apartment communities is tough work, residents don't always leave apartments in the same condition they received them. As always, we hope that our work environment is one that allows our teams to ask for help when needed and we will contract out services to our vendors when the team is in need of a hand. Work/life balance is something that we care deeply about. Our Maintenance teams (including the manager) share on-call responsibility. Between vacation time, personal days, service anniversary and holidays our employees have at least 22 days of paid time off every year. We encourage our teams to take advantage of that time to refresh and recharge.
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