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FirstService Residential

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FirstService Residential reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(2,359 total reviews)
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David Diestel

86% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

FirstService Residential has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,359 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The FirstService Residential employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Real Estate industry (3.8 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
Feb 7, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you're in a situation that would benefit from flexible schedule, they offer that flexibility (but you make up for it in your own time); you can work 7-4, or 8-5; or 9-6;

Cons

Lack of professionalism at all levels: meetings are optional and a waste of time; Lack of vision; people are berated and spoken to in disrespectful manner; performance reviews don't exist; Training doesn't exist; Lack of integrity: Promises made when hired or in order to retain you, are not kept; Confidentiality is not maintained; Gossip is prevalent and part of the culture. Terrible working conditions: Wait lines for bathrooms; Dirty carpets and walls; Inadequate parking spaces force people to park on sidewalk (they promise plans to improve, but don't budget for it);

1.0
Nov 17, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The unlucky co workers trying to do good and do their job

Cons

Managers without people management experience make work life miserable and customers know it too No communication until last minute and then they blame everyone else for not knowing Forcing everyone to take wrong course of action while smiling and pretending to be happy Setting people up for failure No one knows what they're doing and just pretend to know No promotion from within; only hire people from outside that don't last longer than a few months Encourage discord between staff at all levels Managers talk negatively about staff and would rather fire people than train them. No one respects management

2.0
Oct 7, 2014

Dread Coming to Work

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent Pay, Benefits, and PTO

Cons

This company treats it's homeowner's awfully. This place makes all the old people who live in their communities communicate through long, complicated email addresses in which the people on the other line do not respond. There are managers that never return calls or answer their phones. Every call makes you speak to a community manager or request to have them call the homeowner back. If you do get ahold of them, a large number of community managers are rude (they do not want to talk to you or the homeowner) or give you just enough information that gives the homeowner a billion more questions and instead of taking the call at this point managers will force you to be a clueless middle man. You are never provided with enough information to do your job correctly. They place these stupid games that distract from the work. Manager's in the call center do not seem to do anything but sit in their office. It also really feels like I'm in High School here, there is so much drama. Training never keeps up with the turnover, so the longer you are here, the more markets you have to work in while all the new people get to just sit around.

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