Hines reviews

3.8

63% would recommend to a friend

(709 total reviews)
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Jeffrey C. Hines

72% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Hines has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 709 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hines employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Real Estate industry (3.7 stars).

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709 reviews
3.0
Aug 5, 2015

We Color Inside the Lines Here

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Really depends on the office/region. I have an at- to above-market salary, great benefits, bonus, and additional pay. I work normal hours. I'm not micro-managed. But I'm told that others here in other departments are paid below market. Company is privately held and likes it that way. Lots of integrity and loyalty. Nothing shady in any business practices. Good place to come in at junior level for 2 years and have the name on your resume.

Cons

In my particular office, senior management likes to keep people in their respective sandboxes. Once you're in a role, there's little chance of transferring to a different side of the business. Management is bloated with people with 25+ years tenure and old-school ideas. Resistant to change, risk averse. Older managers know all and the younger ones are expected to march in step and do work assigned to them. Managing Directors are like equity partners, so they only care that you bust your a*s so they can make money. Very little opportunity for promotion in development/investment unless you are Ivy league MBA with pedigree (they LOVE pedigree). And if you're a woman? Forget it. There are hardly any women in management roles outside of HR or accounting. Highest company executives are an old boys club who have known each other for 35 years. Inner circle, no one else allowed -it's an aristocracy.

1.0
Jun 24, 2022

Toxic environment / Some bad managers

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Peers are knowledgeable - Interesting Real Estate projects

Cons

- Limited advanced opportunities especially for non-core departments - Constant restructures - Inability to provide honest feedback to your manager without retaliation - There is no support or tools to help solve even the most minor conflicts - Lack of support when burnout - Company culture is not reflected in some managers' behaviors - Highly political work environment

1.0
Jun 13, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay and benefits. You will also learn a lot.

Cons

I saw that Hines has changed their logo to include "pride." I was severely disappointed, but not surprised, to see that Hines has partaken in "corporate pride." As a POC and a member of the LGBTQ+ community, I can assure you that I didn't feel any support or any push for diversity within this firm. Work life balance is abysmal here. They're all talk and no action. They keep having these "discussions" and "seminars" about diversity, but nothing ever gets done. I feel as if the point of these events is to appease their egos and give themselves a pat on the back. And in one of these meetings, I made it clear that work life balance is important to me because one day I will have a child. Being an LGBT couple, my partner and I will not have the typical gender roles (which even hetero couples should do away with, but that's a topic for another day). They gave me this shocked look. It was then, I knew this company isn't the company for me, nor will provide any support to the members of our community. I don't think Hines is an ally and if they want to be, they have a lot more to do than just change their logo colors.

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