Safeguard Properties Reviews

Pros

Dynamic and interesting and places a high value on technology investment and customer service

Cons

Huge growth over the last 5 years means growing pains and they have a lot of them. Some basic reporting, processes and controls are behind for a company of this size. There are little opportunities for advancement and no career paths. Nepotism could ultimately hurt this company...hiring family doesn't guarantee success, in fact, may actually be the opposite. Offices are overcrowded, with lots of small, cramped cubicles making it difficult to work efficiently.

Advice to Senior Management

It's well known that executive management is unorthodox, controversial, and negative which will translate into that same negative culture all the way down. Encourage a more collaborative, professional and respectful environment and hire accordingly. Open door policy is anything but when the execs have giant glass walls for all to see, so if you are serious about it, find another way...consider soliciting anonymous feedback/ideas from staff. Execs have a reputation in town for being difficult to get a long with and turnover at all levels are high. Management should interact more on the floor, identify pain points and best practices that should be prioritized and get a plan to accomplish it. Should be some change management training due to the constant onslaught of change there. Do team building events for a reason, like when goals are accomplished or a milestone completed (decrease in error rate, for example). Quality work should be a higher priority than speed.

Pros

It's ever changing environment and the company grew 150% in size for the past year which gives an opportunity to grow and/or try new positions. Good benefits, decent 401K program

Cons

Need to be more careful with hiring decisions - creates feeling of being undervalued when you do the majority of job for the same pay when the person sharing the same position as you are don't even have a degree. This should be a requirement, and not only preffered. Same goes for the management team.

Advice to Senior Management

Be closer to associates. Be reachable. Implement more training and leadership programs. Have "wider" open door policy. Need establish communication of different levels of management with each other.

Pros

Decent pay is about the only thing I can come up with!

Cons

Little/no feedback from management on performance, as well as little positive feedback in general. Very production oriented so it's not a good place for someone who cares about quality over quantity.

Advice to Senior Management

Develop better management skills, promote based on merit.