Irvine Company Reviews

Cons

- Handcuffed by policies that do not help you in your role
- Main focus is revenue and not genuine customer service like that which is preached
- No support from senior management when facing objections from residents, most managers cave in and make you look incompetent and rude

Cons

You work alot and pay is ok.

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Irvine Company is WAY too large to be managed effectively. In my 17 years of property management experience, I have never worked for an organization with so many prohibitive and restrictive policies and procedures.

The company is so over concerned with audit compliance, it looses focus on what matters most... people.

There are too many systems they demand all managers use in a regular basis. Technology they market as there to make your job easier only causes confusion, and ends up causing further “non-compliance” should you use it improperly.

Irvine Company is literally the DMV of Property Management. There are checklists upon checklists and there is zero exception to completing everything without risk of an Audit Ding.

Senior Management is FIERCE. They are incredibly intelligent and talented folks, however they are often horrible managers of... PEOPLE and run meetings like your taking the Bar Exam. This leads to often stressful, fear based, and tense work environments and communication styles. I have SO many colleagues who have been unable to seek promotion due to their relationships with Senior Management... you better make a great impression and be the shining image of positivity and collaboration if you have any hopes of a future outside your current role.

Irvine Company restructures, reorganizes and changes policies, systems, philosophy’s, leaders, technology, and physical office spaces so frequently the resident perception is often that we “blow” their money of frivolous changes instead of fucusing on upgrading amenities, resident events, etc. Many of these changes are based on the demand of the secretive chairman, Donald Bren, but overall bring some amount of benefit to the community despite their disruptive and chaotic nature.

Overall, even though I love what I do, and I adore my teams, and will likely remain here for at least another year... it’s really hard to find the passion and joy in what I do with Irvine Company with these existing working environments. I hope positive change is in the future. The foundation to have an amazing and unique one of a kind company are all here!

Cons

On board training and upward mobility could be improved.

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There are few if any cons.

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Changes that happen from the top of the organization without thoughtful consideration to the impact of the decision to the business or the people

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Horrible training or little to no training.

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More time off would be nice

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Sometimes it feels like this job doesn't offer much stability. They recently laid off multiple divisions of the company when we got a new CEO. Many people lost their jobs. Even some on-site people lost their jobs as well. This mainly affected people in the corporate office and the higher up positions but its still hard to believe the company "cares" when all those people were left without jobs. Like I said in the first column, you don't get weekends off unless you are lucky. Your days off may be as such: Monday & Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday, Sunday & Monday, etc.

Cons

It's a very traditional company.