Don't buy the culture hype - Anonymous employee HomeSmart International Employee Review

The company loves to talk about about how great the culture is. But the typical perks of a weekly food truck, free snacks and spirit days does not make a culture. Here's what else develops a culture: - A significant lack of paid sick leave, especially for employees in their first 1-2 years. Thereby forcing employees to choose between working in the office when ill or taking unpaid time off after they've depleted what little paid sick time they had. Obviously most come in, so diseases regularly spread fast through the staff. - Executives begrudgingly allowing staff to work from home during a pandemic then subtly making them feel guilty about the opportunity to do so. - Forcing exhausted employees into the office at 8 a.m. for a full day of work after a red-eye flight back from a busy trade show rather than giving them a well-deserved day off. - Executives who aren't open to concrete feedback and new ideas. They like to make a show of brainstorming and planning sessions, but these only lead to generic teamwork/motivational platitudes. - Making staff work half days on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve (both completely unnecessary) rather than be with their friends and family. - No holidays off work for half the year (New Year to Memorial Day). - Having executives who openly mock the political leanings of employees to their face. - Creating cushy VP positions for friends of executives. On that note: The favoritism displayed to friends and family of executives is a joke. This is widely discussed by employees and mentioned in other Glassdoor reviews. In summary: Keep your head down, stick to the status quo, regularly tell the executives how wonderful they are, and you can do pretty well for yourself here. Question anything about the way things have always been done, offer suggestions for positive change, question anything executives say or do, and you'll fall out of favor soon enough.