Where good ideas and intelligence go to die - Anonymous employee Rocket Homes Employee Review

2.0
10 Nov 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great ideas for the company and the industry Generally hire smart and motivated people into lower positions

Cons

Those good ideas will never get put into full action due to terrible leadership, the inability to execute on anything, and focus on the wrong things. In over a year at the company my experience included week after week of being completely unable to do my job due to various hoops to jump through until there was no point in even trying. Management seems to believe that leadership is done by belittling employees and insisting on escalating every decision, including minor ones, to President and CEO level resulting in stagnation. If you do want to do your job be ready to have at least 3-4 meetings about your basic change/idea/etc. getting ready to present it to the President and CEO, including making a formal slideshow presentation for something that could be an email, only to have that presentation be derailed into whatever they've come up with in their minds within the first 5 minutes of starting (which by the way will be 15 minutes late due to no fault of your own). After they do that also be prepared to be held back and lectured (possibly yelled at) for how poorly your presentation went - despite that from the start it wasn't your presentation. From the above you can see that the culture is their biggest problem but most of IHR leadership will try to convince you that just the opposite is true. A significant amount of time is spent on foolish events and activities to help foster a good culture, rather than listening to employees who expressly state that the belittling, micromanaging, horrible treatment, and inability to actually get work done is the problem. Rather than follow the QL culture (which does a much better job empowering employees and creating a generally happy and positive work environment- I know because I also worked there) IHR puts up a false sense of culture while actively destroying reasonable expectations for a workplace.

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Rocket Homes Response
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I’d like to first say thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback, however difficult it may be to hear, it does give us an opportunity to pause and reflect on what we can do better. Based on your feedback, neither of our expectations were met, as I can assure you that this is not the type of environment we expect for our team members. If you would be willing, I would love to better understand your situation. My hope would be to understand the specifics so that we could make a difference going forward. If you would like to share more about your experience, please contact me at DSeabolt@InHouseRealty.com. Sincerely, Doug Seabolt

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