Cartus Reviews

Pros

Great supportive team, working from home, birthday off, xmas eve off

Cons

Company talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk. Does not listen to its employees or act on important and serious issues quick enough leading to burn out and people leaving. Recruitment slow. Don't always backfill roles so work loaded onto existing staff. Pay increase below inflation and not keeping up with market rates and they know this from the lack of applications for internally unfilled roles. Owned by a huge US company that is doing really well but doesn't care to properly invest in it's people. Equipment is old and tired. They need to pull their finger out before it's too late.

Pros

Peers & colleagues Interesting variety of work

Cons

- Executive senior leadership has no clue! - The salaries are very low, and most teams are understaffed. - Annual reviews only have three categories, so the majority of people are lumped in together in the Strong Performer category. It is almost impossible to be rated as a Very Strong Perfomer - The recent merit increases didn't come anywhere near the rise in inflation - The support functions are run on a skeleton staff, particularly L&D - Cartus seems to have its hand tied by the parent company Realogy, who show little or no interest in Cartus

Pros

Working from home flexibility Good hours

Cons

Very stressful with very little support. Management don’t care how busy you are they just give you more and more work. When someone leaves takes so long to hire someone else the team suffer Has a culture of blame Low pay for the stress of the job

Pros

The other people who are willing to work hard for very little in return.

Cons

Complete lack of organisational consistency in ways of working, none of which is documented properly or change controlled. Executive disregard for well-being of employees at all levels. The “big squeeze” on people because the business isn’t profitable. Lack of investment of any kind, due to the above, despite promises. Clear disengagement from family group of companies and obvious intent to sell (and once very publicly failed) Distinct underwhelming approach to D&I and wellbeing, again due to lack of profits (while having a very wealthy parent company). Classic case of tick box exercises which are meaningless. Cronyism and toxic culture - especially from the EVPs and it festers at all levels beneath them. Closed offices to save money. Will tell you that they survived Covid but not without letting a lot of staff go (who will have taken knowledge and experience with them as no business practices are properly documented).