Cortland reviews

3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(750 total reviews)
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Steven DeFrancis

68% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Cortland has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 750 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cortland employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Real Estate industry (3.8 stars).

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750 reviews
2.0
Mar 14, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Very competitive salary, average benefits .

Cons

Training is not the best, you'll have to learn a lot on your own at the same time you will be expected to perform at the max. Pay is good at first look - but you will be bombarded with email at all times and will have to work from home almost every day, emails are flowing back and forth even at late hours from management requesting updates on work done or pending. In many occasions I've got emails at 12 am, 3 am and 6 am from the same person, looks like they are robots and don't sleep. Another problem with Cortland is that every body is a Manager, and every body gets copied on the emails and all have their opinion of how you should do your job.

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Cortland Response
8y
Hello, fellow Cortlandian! Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. As you can imagine, that was not a fun review to read. Since you took the time to leave such a detailed review, let me address a few of your pain points. Training our associates is something that we take seriously – in fact, I would venture to say that no company in our industry provides more training than we do! From Peer Coaching to our Mobile Training Unit to our annual conference, we provide tons of training opportunities. We have a trainer specifically dedicated to the Florida Region – his name is Scott Morris and his email is scott.morris@cortlandpartners.com. I would encourage you to get in touch with Scott so you can have access to and be aware of all of the training opportunities we have available in Florida. In addition to Scott, we also have a Regional Service and Quality Manager, Tony Schibeci, who you can reach at tony.schibeci@cortlandpartners.com. There is no shortage of resources available to you – though perhaps you were not aware of all of the resources you can count on to be successful at Cortland. We have recently launched our new intranet, Cortland Connection, so that company-wide information and announcements are easily accessible. Cortland Connection should help alleviate some of the information gaps our growing company has encountered over the years. Lastly, but perhaps most importantly, the Director of Operations in your region is always ready to help. If you have questions or need help, you can always reach out to your Director of Operations, Jonathan Denton, at jonathan.denton@cortlandpartners.com. As for your comments about balance, we have never claimed to be a place of balance. We are growing fast, and we are committed to helping our residents when they need us – which really means being there for people when they are home during nights, weekends, and holidays! We pride ourselves on helping our associates create the work/life balance they need so they can do what matters to them while also building a structure that attends to the needs of our residents, which sometimes requires flexibility. For us, being a service manager requires a level of commitment and flexibility that is unheard in our industry – which is one of the reasons why we are ahead the competition. If your expectation is to have a steady and predictable 9–5 job, then being a Service Manager is probably not the best fit for you, and we are more than happy to have a conversation with you around finding a more appropriate seat on this big bus we call Cortlandia. Your Florida career resource is Ann-Marie Afoon, and you can reach her at annmarie.afoon@cortlandpartners.com to continue this conversation. Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. #HaveTheCourageToBeBetter
4.0
Mar 6, 2018

Corporate Office

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great culture, great CEO, flexible hours, a lot of company related bonanzas, overall good company.

Cons

top heavy, management needs to run in circles before coming to a conclusion, if something goes wrong their solution is to replace it instead of fixing it and then most of the new implementations go awry because they don't have the bandwidth for a real implementation team, they do position eliminations and then direct the work to whomever is left, everyone is pretty over worked. High turnover.

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Cortland Response
8y
Hello, there! We’re beyond thrilled to hear that you love our culture – we think it’s pretty awesome too. Flexible hours and bonanzas are just some of the ways we show our appreciation to our hard-working associates. As for our management team, we are highly collaborative, and while it may feel a bit chaotic, we truly believe that working together helps us achieve greater results. Having said that, there are always ways to better the way we work – and our open-door communication policy allows any and all associates to share their ideas for improvement. We are constantly looking for new, innovative, and previously unthought-of ideas to help us continue being an industry leader.
5.0
Feb 27, 2018

Great company!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Cortland is a great, growing company.

Cons

I do not see any cons right now

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Cortland Response
8y
Thank you for your rave review! We’re so happy to hear that you love Cortland as much as we do. Thank you for being an ambassador of our great work family! #LoveWhatYouDoAndLetItShow
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