General Growth Properties Reviews

Pros

Good Pay! They treat people well.

Cons

Communication from the top very poor.

Advice to Senior Management

Get some "People Persons" there to get the employees engaged in the company.

Pros

Large, fairly stable organization and industry. Good resources.

Cons

Making money is the number one priority, everything else is a far second. Internal infrastructure is constantly changing, creating internal instability. Found it difficult to respect the decisions and management style of senior management.

Pros

Hints of former corporate culture still exist.

Cons

Current corporate culture is one based in distrust and fear. Former Company core values of teamwork, integrity, honesty, etc have been shattered and plan to "flatten" the organization has only resulted in departments operating in bigger silos. Collaboration between departments is not encouraged and open communication has been lost. Employee strengths are not valued. And there is no sch thing as an open door policy with the new executive team.

Advice to Senior Management

Do not assume you are an expert in every aspect of the business. Trust the strengths and experience of your employees and let them do what they do best and be open to hearing differences of opinion and new ideas. Do not insult the intelligence of your employees by pretending to be pro- employee.

Pros

Good people to work with

Cons

limited growth within company for advancement

Advice to Senior Management

Bring company out of bankruptcy

Pros

The Company cares about its employees in general and they provide you with all of the tools to do your job. Very supportive if you ask for help or you need additional resources. They have a great support system with National Operations in our sector. Lots of great people work here and I have made good friends. Very friendly overall.

Cons

If you are not mainstream meaning you do not dedicate time to schmoozing upper management and drinking with them at the bar, spending time with them outside of work, and behave in a manner in other wise non-threatening to them you will be stuck without any advancement opportunity and you will always receive the blame for what goes wrong. There are numerous pockets like this or what I would call "kingdoms" in the company and if you navigate the political waters carefully when you start your career here you will be fine. Make sure any great ideas look like they are coming from your boss not you.

Advice to Senior Management

Value people for what they bring to the table. Make sure that good positions are awarded on merit and not friendship and that additional focus is provided to training Managers on appropriate work relationships. Drinking at the bar and forming personal relationships with subordinates is wrong and it makes good,dedicated, and hard working individuals feel like outsiders in their own team. Pay attention to the whole team and place equal emphasis on all of your team members' ideas and thoughts. Hold people accountable for results and do not accept blame shifting tactics as an acceptable reason for failure. Investigate all issues thoroughly and base your findings on facts only not emotional response.

Pros

The compensation and benifits package seem fare, talented and extremly dedicated group for the most part, recently emerged from bankrupty with unkown leadership at the helm, but has a proven track record at previous employeer.

Cons

Since the bankruptcy employee morale has been low due to massive layoffs that continue to this day. I guess this is expected when a company trys to bring themselfes back from the brink. Employees have not been valued and there's no opportunity for cross functional training and development for growth. Company needs some personaly, they need to try and get back to re-investing in their employees instead of focusing on the bottom line.

Advice to Senior Management

Once the company starts to get back on it's feet they should really start up the learning and development programs once again. This company used to have a family atmosphere and dedication to employee growth, but it just disappeared.

Pros

I love the people I work with. They are wonderful hard working people.

Cons

If you want interaction from higher ups in management this would not be the place that I would choose. Many of the upper management does not communicate as well as I would personally like, but they are good people to work for and with.

Pros

Depending on the department you work for, you are well taken care of/respected as an employee. Though this could be a con if you do not work in the right department!

Cons

Face time has become more important than efficiency.

Advice to Senior Management

Although benefits are good at GGP, there is no maternity leave. In addition, the CVA (bonus) is more based on being employeed at GGP than performance. There are departments that work exceptionally harder than other departments but the bonus pool is the same.

Pros

Competent team of senior managers, understanding of employee needs, reasonable workload, accommodating, fun working environment, exposure to numerous business functions, transparency, open communication

Cons

Unpaid but offered a stipend at the end of the internship.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to run the prodigies intern program. I learned a lot about the business and was proud to put the company name on my resume.

Pros

Open atmosphere, want individual contributions. Encouraging if you're productive. Big projects.

Cons

Lots of travel. Continuously changing staff and supervisors - assume ongoing change is standard.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't over-extend your credit. Hundreds lost jobs because of poor financial decisions by management.