Lennar Reviews

Pros

The people, the culture, the senior management executives

Cons

Working overtime is expected if you want to advance your career

Pros

Any job in this economy is a good thing.

Cons

Uncertainty. Lack of opportunity for advancement.

Pros

The pay is great, one of the best in the market. Pricing is very competitive, easy to sell. Co-workers are great, management is great. If your community isnt selling they do what they need to do in order to get sales. Overall an amazing company to work for!

Cons

Dont really have any cons about the company. I dont like working every weekend but it is worth the pay.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing what you are doing.

Pros

great place to learn about the home building business

Cons

company too top heavy with upper management is incompantent.

Advice to Senior Management

reward those who contribute and get rid of the non producer

Pros

learning experiences, working with city officials, learning code restrictions

Cons

no advancement opportunity, no bonuses, no recognition

Advice to Senior Management

The construction manager and crews are the ones that get things done. A thank you would go a long way.

Pros

- Looks good on your resume
- Good networking potential (many good people pass through this company)
- Possible career growth (if you fit their mold)

Cons

- Company is run like a mom and pop shop
- Politics
- As others have mentioned, micro-management
- Poor corporate culture that only got worse as business went down hill (management should've at least tried to maintain employee moral)
- No worthwhile employee recognition
- Poor career opportunities for most (unless you fit their very specific mold)

Advice to Senior Management

Quit micro-managing and belittling your employees and listen to them instead. You have some good people working for you (that you haven't chased away yet) that can really contribute if you let them.

Pros

Looks good on a resume, as they used to be Fortune 500. They've come a long way. But I learned quite a lot and was allowed to run my department independently.

Cons

Too much false cameraderie at Lennar. Some managers were totally random in their hiring and promotion decisions and once you were designated "a star" you were basically given free reign.

Pros

5% discount on new homes

Cons

No promotion opportunity/ No raises in five years

Advice to Senior Management

It may be time to change your business model

Pros

The people are a lot of fun.

Cons

The industry is very tough.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep on pushing and hiring good people.

Pros

Great people who try to stay dedicated even though everyone is scared their job will be gone the next day. At the divisional level the direction is good and the right business decisions are attempted to be made.

Cons

The company seems to have little compassion for the employees in regards to long-term plans. At the end of the day, the almighty dollar directs sr management decisions including customer service. The entire workforce goes to work daily for fear of not having a job the next day. As hard as divisional management tries to do the right things...Regional management is a joke and vetoes anything of substance the division tries to do to make progress. Corporate is a leech that siphons all the divisional profits disabling the division from showing profit, in turn impacting any bonuses by management. Then regional and corporate mgt complain that you don't make enough money...but they want you to create enough profits to financially support their dumb business decisions that cost the company millions of dollars. This includes the multi-million dollar bonuses that sr mgt takes while divisional employees haven't seen a pay increase in 3-5 years.

Advice to Senior Management

Quit micro-managing every division. Stop putting the burden of financing your dumb decisions on the divisions to cover. Focus on retaining good employees and if that means paying market, then so be it.