Vantaggi
The company is on a track to fast expansion, and with its high turnover rate there are a lot of opportunities for promotions or lateral transfer from one location to another. The product (mainly student housing properties) is decent and the company allocates a lot of money on advertising, making it easy for the getting the product's name out there. The company is constantly hiring people to backfill positions, so if you are looking to get a taste of the student housing industry but have limited choices, this could be your bottom line option to get some experience. But really, it is the bottom line and should only be for new people. If you have experience or other choices, do not sell yourself cheap to this company.
Svantaggi
Extremely high turnover rate due to the high level of stress and bare minimum level of support and compensation from the corporate. The corporate office takes it for granted that its local branches should be able to perform 120% result with 50% of the resource, guidance, and support. Corporate directors have big enough egos to demand your unconditional obedience, little enough understanding of your situation to make a sound plan and budget, and next to no patience to hear or respond to your feedback and updates. This breeds inability to face problems and carry out solutions until the situations deteriorate into utter hell, and then comes the blame storming, finger pointing, and scapegoating. People quit or get fired, only to leave the remaining team members to suffer the work overload while the corporate takes on average 3 months to find an illy qualified replacement, just another soul to be burnt out soon. Poor compensation and recognition, little guidance and support, and loud yelling discourage anyone to take initiatives on anything outside of their regular responsibility. If you really want to bite the bullet and got an interview from them, ask the question why the position is available and what happened to the previous staff. If it was a fire/quit, ask the reason. If it is was a promotion of a transfer, ask why the other position opened up. It will be immensely beneficial for you to figure out whether you are getting yourself into tons of unsolved problems accumulated by the previous staff or going into a relatively more stable local branch that did not suffer too many turnovers. Use that to negotiate your compensation, and make sure to compare their offer to similar or equivalent positions/skills required at other companies, as their "top paid" positions could end up having a salary of being 41% below the industry average.
