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Great Way to Learn Valuation Quickly - Appraiser Fraizer Capital Employee Review

5.0
30 Mar 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company moves staff up quickly if they are competent to do complicated jobs. They tend to learn commercial real estate in the first 2 years and if they have aptitude, then they learn how to do business and equipment valuations. The staff works about 45-55 hours per week, not like the accounting firms that work people 70-90 hours per week. The head of the company encourages people to travel. Overall, a live work balance is encouraged. Work conditions are typically 9-6 or 8-5 per day. Sometimes with deadlines there is some weekend work, but this really depends upon the appraiser and his or her time management skills. Some of the assignments that the company works on are unusual as compared to other valuation companies. Most companies either do only commercial real estate valuations or only business valuations. This company does a wide range of valuations with probably 60-65% being commercial real estate and 30-35% being business valuations, and +/- 3-5% being equipment valuations. The retirement package of 10% is superior to any valuation business in the appraisal industry.

Cons

While there is training and oversight from the staff, if you are expecting to be spoon fed and not read and study after hours, then this is not the place and probably not the best industry for you. Culturally, employees don't get together for happy hour very often since they often want to finish their work and get home. Deadlines are sometime stressful. The company no longer hires interns from USC, after hiring over 50 people over the last 25 years. Many interns were trained to do business and commercial real estate valuations and went on to great investment banking jobs after graduating. However, in recent years the USC interns left after 3 months since they got bored doing entry level work. The company would only train interns if they were there over 3 months for a 1 year internship. I have noticed that the negative reviews were from interns who expected to be trained to do high level valuations and cash flows, but in many cases made math and spelling mistakes.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
20 Feb 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Frazier Capital is a commercial valuation firm, and a great one at that. I joined the company as a recent graduate and I loved that my job directly involved me with the firm's work from day one . There is a strong professional culture in the office, a strict dress code, and a healthy standard for high quality work. Junior employees typically assist with several projects at once, with tasks including market analysis, broker cold-call surveys, entering data and figures into financial models, among other tasks. Some of the work can be very memorable with terrific substance and context in real estate. There's a lot of collaboration and teamwork, and I always felt I had the opportunity to learn the context and meaning behind the figures I gathered for analysis. I left the job with a surplus of good stories for future cover-letters and school applications. Of course, this positive experience was imparted by the senior staff in the office. Aside from training in the basics of the job, there's a lot of encouragement for self-directed learning and continued study. The boss will be very frank about the steps a 22 year-old employee will need to take to advance inside the company or to find another job, and how this initiative is compulsory whatever your plans. Another great thing is that I wasn't alone as a recent grad. At any one time, I worked with at least 4 other recent graduates or current students from all the best schools in LA.

Cons

The company might be too small to appear in the US News best places to work rankings.

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