Westfield Group Reviews

Pros

Work/life balance strongly supported along with good benefits and salary.

Cons

The company was on its way to becoming a more forward-facing organization but had some legacy ballast weighing it down.

Pros

Decent benefits, free Coke products.

Cons

Tunnel vision, not recognizing employee strengths, silos, inefficient work environments

Advice to Senior Management

Be up front and honest with your employees. Recognize their strengths and be genuine about their growth.

Pros

Colleagues are helpful and supportive. Interaction with people - customers, tenants, city officials, etc. Benefits offered are at industry standards.

Cons

Unreasonable NOI expectations to achieving results especially since outside economic factors are at work. Stress levels are high, no home work life balance.

Advice to Senior Management

Reach out to the troops in the field to receive honest feedback as well as get the true pulse of reality.

Pros

There is a huge sense of family. It always felt like home. They invest in training and education. You may not always get outside training classes but they ensure you get both professional and technical training along the way.

Cons

There is an occasional hint of the gold ole boys club.

Pros

A great place to get a lot of professional development

Cons

Very boring. In a rural, conservative community.

Advice to Senior Management

Everything is done well.

Pros

Flex time and work/life balance is great
Facilities and campus offer great amenties (gym, golf course etc)
Work from home ability is allowed

Cons

No advancement is possible if you are not "in" with upper management
Although pushback is promoted to overall straetgic direction - if you push too hard, you will find yourself demoted
Advancement is based completely on relationship not by ability

Advice to Senior Management

Learn to advance your people by their ability not by relationship to upper management
Treat people with respect and you will receive loyalty

Pros

Good company for the area as there are few/no alternatives for the work force which is primarily locally grown. Benefits are decent although they are becoming more expensive every year. There is a bonus but it is reduced significantly from prior years. There is a pension plan but it's under review and given the low growth may be next to go.

Cons

Isolated and living off of past successes. Private company, very political, process heavy. Way behind in strategy and technology to enable an effective growth strategy. Management opportunities given to those in the inner circle only. Don't join company unless you know someone in it. Managers are rotated yearly so they escape accountability. Little to no true creative or intellectual capability evident in management or strategy. Being overtaken by the competition and it's a slow, painful decline.

Pros

It's a stable place to work. The company has plenty of money in reserve so the chances of Management messing up so badly you will get fired is low. The Management is willing to listen but unwilling to do anything with the information.

Cons

Leaders, cause we can't call anyone a manager any more, don't lead. They listen but don't respect the people that work for them. People get promoted because of who they know not what they know. The company isn't focused on growing but maintaining the status quo. The problem is that every competitor is moving past them. The company flat out refuses to invest in the projects needed to get new customers in any age range below 60. The IT group is never allowed to fix any problems until they are in crisis mode. If it's not broken, which means like it was 5 years ago, don't fix it. There is never time given anywhere in the company maintain and enhance any process or system.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop promoting the protection of the status quo. Your future may look shiny now but in 10 years you are going to be asking yourself where all of your customers went. Being risk adverse is fine but letting it paralyze your business will only lead to your long term demise.

Pros

Great people, strong team mentality, varied job duties, strong local leadership

Cons

long hours, antiquated information/financial management systems, lots of reporting, 'fire-fighter' mentality rather than proactive actions

Advice to Senior Management

keep streamlining reporting duties, and please stop releasing new systems mid-year. It's like changing horses mid-full-gallop- it's adds unnecessary complexity, work-load and stress. With the nature of the work, January-February are down-times, why not take advantage of it!

Pros

Good benefits, bonuses, some good quality people. You are provided all the tools you need to do your job. Good work environment.

Cons

Very political. You have to be a schmoozer to advance. Some people in management and leadership positions have no business being there, and it's hurting the organization.

Advice to Senior Management

Take care of the people that have stuck with you during good and bad times. Give more credit for people who give you good results and see the big picture, as opposed to having robots who just folllow procedures.