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
2.0
May 15, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good Salary, Nice Competitive Environment! New Hire Orientation is great! Provides great info on our benefits! Also a great chance to meet upper management.

Cons

Management often neglects to give you important information. Management is often not engaged with what is actually going on at the property (spending a couple of hours at the property does not give you an adequate idea of what is going on. Spend a week there and see what is really going on.) There should be more accountability for the actions of Property/General/Regional Managers as well as the HR department. There are a lot of nitty-gritty details and procedures that often get overlooked due to lack of training. The company as a whole needs more training (especially for rules and regulations in regard to files, roommate relinquishment/replacement, insurance, check posting/returned checks). These were only a few of the many things that adequate training is not provided for.

2.0
Aug 1, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits, annual activities, Having a steady job, housing discount

Cons

No real employee engagement endeavors, even though there is an annual employee engagement survey (such a joke). It seems as though Equity does not care if they lose their best workers, everyone is replaceable. No consideration is given to how decisions will affect employees, the only focus is the bottom line. Most people are overworked. If someone quits or gets fired, they take forever to replace that person and only if they absolutely have to. But in the meantime you will be given hell about audit compliance and metrics when you are just trying to stay afloat. Anything can change at any moment about your job requirement, compensation, job title, etc. I would suggest Equity being a last resort, or a temporary gig until you find something better.

1.0
Aug 27, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company has locations Nationwide and somewhat good benefits and salary.

Cons

Their review process is for the birds and they really need to figure out what job descriptions go with what job title. If you are to primarily focus on Sales then you are in sales if you are to help with customer service and management issues then you are part of the management team. Not to say the two paths wont cross but the focus of the job should be on either or but not both.

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