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3.8

62% would recommend to a friend

(41 total reviews)
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David Wilikson

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67% positive business outlook

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5.0
Dec 28, 2018
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Pros

Supportive teams to help you fulfill your role in the company and goals overall. Flexible work hours (within reason, depending on your job role). Casual attire-unless you are client-facing. Good training systems, but you will learn the most from jumping into your role and getting hands-on learning. Amazing workplace atmosphere (how often does your current CEO or upper management hand out treats to employees or even deign to say hello every time they pass you in the hall?). Supportive management who treats you as a person with a family and life outside of work. Good benefits including great PTO, paid volunteer hours, insurance (Can't give detail on how good/poor insurance options are as I do not use them, but insurance is offered and seems fairly priced) and other items. Team is not a buzzword here-it is a culture.

Cons

Some roles can be long hours (sometimes), but we have a system in place to make everything flexible and as fair as possible. Pay could be a little higher for some roles with the amount that we do for our associations. There is not a "fast track" for advancement-but this makes sense when you understand that it WILL take more than a few weeks to become an expert in your role-regardless of prior experience.

2.0
Nov 11, 2018

Lack of Leadership

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Pros

-Company provided laptop -5 weeks of PTO -No experience required (also a con) -Working with exceptional volunteer Board members -Learning many new things

Cons

-Working 60 hours a week at all times of the day/night -Poor, misguided, and dishonest leadership -Frantic, toxic, and desperate environment -Needless to say, the extremely high turnover -The pay is several thousand dollars lower than the industry average

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Spectrum Association Management Response
7y
Hello recent colleague, We are sorry to see you go. Thank you very much for the time you gave to your team and the communities you served. It sounds like you learned a lot and were given an opportunity for new career challenges, which allowed you to grow. We've set up most employee schedules to work within roughly 40 hours a week, even for salaried employees. Many of our employees with the most demanding portfolios manage to work around 40 hours per week. It sounds like we missed an opportunity to find out was going on before you got burned out and help you become more efficient and find balance in your life. I hope you shared some specifics about dishonesty you experienced during your exit interview, we take exit interviews very seriously. Regarding pay. You are correct, some managers at other companies make more and some less. Often the high pay is for very experienced managers with large portfolios (sometimes more than double the load of a Spectrum portfolio). We also offer some employees a chance to learn the industry from scratch as you referenced. These managers don't make what an experienced manager does, but we invest heavily in them and help them grow while here. We offer multiple steps of career development within the CM role itself and then into mentoring and supervisory roles. We know getting this experience takes patience and there are other companies who may pay an experienced manager more, but we offer a very competitive salary, a balanced portfolio, training and the benefits you mentioned, which make for a very compelling opportunity for many who want what we offer and fit our culture. Thank you again for working here. We hope your next career move offers you all of the things you are looking for.
1.0
Nov 9, 2018

Community Manager

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Pros

5 weeks vacation and great support from colleagues (if they stay long enough)

Cons

constant turn around and huge workload. Expect to have 10 communities in your portfolio by the end of week two with low pay and sad benefits. No real training and weak management. I would never recommend working here unless you are seeking entry level experience in property management.

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Spectrum Association Management Response
7y
Hello former colleague, We thank you for your service and for serving our homeowner customers. We sincerely wish we could have departed on better terms. We are glad you felt supported by your team and enjoyed your time off while here. It is never our intention to debate on this forum, as everyone's opinion matters and should be heard. However, knowing the great work our training team does and the effort put into mentoring, I must address your comments. As you are aware, Spectrum has an LMS system with over 300 proprietary pieces of training we've developed along with an ongoing mentorship program. We also just launched a leadership development program for leaders and all employees. In our most recent employee survey, training was overwhelmingly listed as a strength. It is not the norm at Spectrum to have 10 accounts, even for an experienced CM. Nor have I ever seen a new, inexperienced employee receiving a full portfolio from day one. To make sure I wasn't missing anything, I just surveyed a handful of CMs here between 3-5 months. They each have between two and five accounts, most of which they still have support on. I am sure even a few accounts can seem like a lot, there is a lot to learn to be successful in this role. Maybe you felt overwhelmed and felt you needed more support. It is too bad your opportunity here did not work out for you. We truly wish you the best in your future endeavors. May you find a place where you are a great fit and can be happy!
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