The Scion Group reviews

3.0

43% would recommend to a friend

(588 total reviews)
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Robert Bronstein

58% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

The Scion Group has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 588 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The The Scion Group employee rating is 20% below average for employers within the Real Estate industry (3.8 stars).

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588 reviews
1.0
Nov 17, 2018

Horrible Horrible company to work for

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are no pros with this company

Cons

First let me inform all of you that these “great” reviews are fake. During summits there is an employee that goes around handing out business cards begging people to post positive reviews on Glassdoor. 1)Turnover- HOLY MOLY the turn over rate for this company is horrible. It’s almost comical. Don’t get too attached to your coworkers they won’t last. 2) Company is growing so quickly and they don’t have the support to substain the growth. Think of it like this you have a cup of marbles the cup can only hold so many marbles, however you keep adding more and more marbles to the cup to where they keep overflowing and falling on the floor. This company is the Roman Empire. 3) Unrealistic Expectations- You better hope that you are in a market that is easy to lease your property up. If you are under YOY you are going to get literal hell from your regional and marketing coordinator. 4) No work/home life balance- This company literally thinks that this job is your life. If you aren’t meeting expectations get use to working every weekend and don’t expect to get a day off during the week. I worked 22 days in a row before a day off. This wasn’t even including turn. Oh and no extra pay for this either. Salary is so much fun. That’s how they get you. 5) They don’t like you they fire you- you pretty much have to be a robot and not have an opinion of your own. You pretty much have to agree with everything that your higher up says. If you don’t like it don’t speak up. This gets you fired. 6) if you aren’t leasing it’s your fault- I came from a VERY saturated market. New properties were coming up left and right. This made it VERY difficult to produce results. Everything was always our fault if we didn’t sign over 35 contracts in a week. Back to that whole unrealistic expectations. 7) Corporate is very inefficient- they give directors about 20 + properties. Getting ahold of anyone in higher up is pretty much impossible. They travel and they get so many emails it’s useless sending one to them or your regional. If you do they will make you feel really bad about not already knowing the answer. Also the people in corporate are really rude to the staff at the property level. 8) there are other companies- trust me on this. Stay FAR FAR away. 9) There is favoritism- if you aren’t best friends with your higher ups you won’t get promoted. I’m not talking about your GM either I’m talking about the corporate staff members. Kiss their butts that’s the only way to make more money or get promoted. 10) Lack of training- just know that the policies in this company are STRICT. You must do everything and I mean EVERYTHING exactly to scion policy. If not you will be in big trouble. Might I add they don’t give new employees much training. I was a CA then a HC then a RSM worked for this company for almost 3.5 years and it’s taken every year for me to learn the “Scion Way” of doing things. RUN RUN RUN. DONT WORK HERE

2.0
Nov 15, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Travel was good. Salary was competitive

Cons

Lack of Training. Lack of Follow-through. Acquisition of company properties resulted in loss of management capabilities. Lack of Communication.

2.0
Oct 31, 2018

Culture of Favoritism

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Pros

The Scion Group is a great company to work for as a PART TIME employee. The pay is great while working as a student and taking classes at the same time. The property I worked for always took account of our class schedules and scheduled us around them. Most of the properties in their portfolio are class A and living there is convenient.

Cons

1. No employee housing discount: I always found it strange that the company didn't offer housing discounts for all of its employees but rather just management staff. However, they have recently done away with all employee discounts companywide whether you are management or not. This is just common courtesy for employees of a property management company, and as I have researched other companies this is not commonplace either. 2. No commission: Scion also just did away with commission bonuses. What they were aiming for with this, I have no idea. They attempted to give us a measly $3 increase in pay to make up for this but I don't believe $3 more an hour makes up for the amount of money you have the potential to make through commission. Also, in any profession, salespeople are commission driven. The removal of this aspect of the job decreases morale, motivation to sign contracts, and was incredibly dumb in my opinion. 3. Favoritism within the company and at my specific property is RAMPANT. I understand that in the workforce it's about "who you know and not what you know", but that should trump experience nor knowledge. Promotions are handed out based on how many times you've been to the bars to get drunk outside of work with upper management, and it's disgusting. This is just the tip of the iceberg in cons. There are too many to list and type at this moment.

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