Toxic culture, shameless favouritism, incompetent management, mess - Financial Controller Greystar Employee Review

1.0
Feb 23, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good offices, excellent location, flexible working

Cons

The company is badly led and mismanaged. The truism that fish rots from the head holds true. London Finance is the epitome of a broken function with toxic culture which allows incompetent people to thrive and get promoted, whilst decent and knowledgeable people are marginalised and pushed out. There is no semblance of a work - life balance. Holidays are denied. The culture of favouritism and cronyism ensures huge failings and fiascos by those in charge are swept under the carpet or blamed on other people. Management incompetence costs the company and investors millions in legal fees and lost returns. It is normal for a manager to mock on a Teams call somebody who's fallen out of favour for no obvious reason. As she messages her cronies something derisory about another colleague causing them to snigger and switch off their cameras, whist the unsuspecting victim is left wondering what is happening. Mocking people's appearance and features is the norm. Professionalism, ethics or decency have no place here.

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5.0
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Pros

Great work environment to work in

Cons

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1.0
Jul 12, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Pay with housing discounts tend to be better than competition

Cons

Severe negatives if you plan on taking any type of leave of absence. While they are required to allow the leave, (my experience) has been that if retaliatory since it adds additional work load to those in your group (your boss). I’ve experienced this personally, and have seen it with other managers in my group. You will start to receive write ups that you never had before, micro managed, and/or fired after such things. I went from discussing promotions before my leave started to becoming ineligible for rehire after taking state protected LOA.

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