Weingarten Realty – “Great people and benefits”

Pros

Started out with a lot of opportunities to advance and "spread wings". I made a lot of great friends there and feel that the majority of people were well chosen.

Cons

They were not very good about promoting from within. Basically, you had to leave the company to move up. There was also a period of layoffs that made it unpleasant to work there.

Advice to Senior Management

Go back to the family business model. Weingarten used to be a very people driven place, I feel it moved to money motivated- to the point of compromising people.