Equity Residential reviews

4.2

79% would recommend to a friend

(1,118 total reviews)
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Mark Parrell

87% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Equity Residential has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,118 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent 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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3.0
Jan 24, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

had places all obver US you could transfer and work at. Decent product to sell, Industry experience among staff as a whole solid

Cons

pay is lower tier, unless senior mgt and you cannot help your residents because they are too cheap, They went on merger spree in the '90s and got all this good quality product and turned it to crap, by not maintaining it. The fell through the floor in quality and then started on a selling spree. Made bad decisions in what regions to get out of before the economy went south and wonder why they can't turn a profit or hold their own. Its call stable markets, You got our of the remember,a nd you keep you blowing smoke on Wall Street like your "plan" is the way to proceed even though it wasnt the time to embark on it before a recession. You buy NYC stuff and Lehman lays off, go figure. You buy CA properties and their market tanks, unemployment at 7.7%, 18 mths later Wat state has held its own through all of this? And you betrayed it FIRST!! Go tell Wall Street your new 'plan' I bet they rocket your stock again for sticking to the plan

4.0
Sep 22, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Equity has an excellent benefits package. The medical is great as well as 401k and other benefits. The company also invests a good deal of money and time trying to create better employees. Lots of seminars and meetings to try to improve performance. When I was working for them I felt like I was working for one of the best in their industry.

Cons

There is quite a gap between management and the people in the trenchs. A lot of misunderstanding an animosity between these two groups.

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