W. P. Carey Reviews

Current Employee – been working at W. P. Carey

Pros – Good location, Good people....had a very nice experience working. Nice environment to learn and grow

Cons – less opportunities to grow at higher level

Current Employee – been working at W. P. Carey

Pros – - As a student, they were very flexible for letting you do school work when your tasks were complete & letting you have the day off for tests. It was very evident 'school comes first'
- Learn basic time management and customer service skills
- Opportunity to lead a team

Cons – - Our customers were the students. Majority of the workers could care less about them and their concerns. They were always an 'inconvenience'.
- No accountability. People could slack off, and there was no repercussions.
- Not an open environment. You are encouraged to keep things to yourself and maintain a positive attitude at all times. This is not very useful when you're trying to address problems.
- Hiring/salary freeze hasn't helped anyone
- Not much room to grow. It was more of lateral moves to other schools (liberal arts).

Advice to Senior Management – Take care of the students and help grow the student workers. Fire the workers who do not perform at a basic standard. Give raises when you say you will.

Former Employee – worked at W. P. Carey

Pros – Pleasant people, good compensation, successful company in the real estate sale-leaseback space

Cons – Many cubicles, low key, driven culture, lacking in camaraderie and communication.

Advice to Senior Management – Improve communication with staff, reconsider the HR testing to get more diversity of personality types.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at W. P. Carey full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great benefits (in the looooooong run). If you can tolerate being another suit in a ship full of Borg.

Cons – The entire office culture is based on white, uptight, frat boys from family connections, stuffy Arian from Darien clubs and socialite wannabes with little to no intellectual curiosity to navigate real world business.

Advice to Senior Management – Add mandatory diversity training to all levels of employees, including the Board and Executive Committee. The old fogey stogie era is over...it's time to get with the new. The CEO is yet another relative of William P. Carey.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at W. P. Carey

Pros – -Good benefits
-Best company in the industry
-Very smart, caring, co-workers

Cons – -Long hours
-Extreme micromanagement
-Poor sales management and very little awareness of whats going on on the ground level
-Management likes to get rid of people very regularly to keep people on their toes

Advice to Senior Management – -Learn to spend a little more time with the sales team. The effort is noted, but easy to see right through the veil.

Current Employee – been working at W. P. Carey full-time for more than a year

Pros – University benefits are good. They are flexible with work schedules during slow times. Nice campus.

Cons – Extremely clickish. If you are not kissing up to management no matter if you are a hardworker, get your work done, you are still outside the circle so will not get the benefit of performance increases (even if you got 4 or 5's on your review). A work enivonrment of "friends helping friends".

Advice to Senior Management – Treat everyone equally and don't talk down to people. Everyone is an adult. People should be rewarded for their work and not their social standing.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at W. P. Carey full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great for young people with no family and wants a firm for a short term for their résumé. Good benefits.

Cons – They think they own you. Blackberry. Email on a Saturday at 3 Am. Work till 11 pm. Expect to work holidays including day after thanksgiving/ additionally training is by consultants that want perm jobs. Computer system is very poor, although they are looking to upgrade within 2 years.

Advice to Senior Management – Have the perm employees train newcomers and not the temp. Also be honest about the constant long long hours. Get a new computer program faster. Perhaps your employees won't have to work to midnight. Excel on manual is unheard in this day in age!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at W. P. Carey full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good Benefits, the best I have seen

Cons – Can't make up their mind on what they want
long hours
micro-managed out the ying yang
almost like being in school...if you aren't in the "click" you are ignored
no recognition
management will get rid of people just for the "heck" of it ...with no real reason, even when their "Review" is Excellent

Advice to Senior Management – Take a chill pill and pay attention to what it going on
learn from field
Take training classes

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at W. P. Carey

Pros – They have very good Benefits

Cons – There is a lot of Nepatism, unfairness, disorganized

Advice to Senior Management – More training for managers needed

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend