Pros
Career stepping stone Relaxed office environment Pension contributions Stable employment
Cons
A steady and stable employer with a good overall strategy but internally poorly managed and becoming cheap. If you are outside America immediately you are on the backfoot and treated as the poor cousin. Management leave’s a lot to be desired although granted have their hands tied by a distant and draconian Santa Barbara. It’s resulting in them continually shooting themselves in the foot and bleeding good staff. Life at Yardi entirely revolves around the alter of client management. There’s no training, no career development…..nothing. Your wings are clipped and you are pigeonholed in the effort of providing client stability out of sheer convenience for themselves and clients. Showing ambition or being too good at your job can be detrimental. Glory is not shared. Progression is paid lip service to and kept totally opaque. Even sideways movement...there is simply nothing offered. Unless your role involves on site support, then you may as well be on the moon in terms of valued input. If you desire a non-stressful job to plod along in, then Yardi is the employer for you. Clock in, meet basic requirements, clock out. Real reward from Yardi only comes through long service and if your face fits. That’s irrespective of time, dedication, skill or ambition. It’s a flat structure in an environment of diminishing returns. Here Yardi is neither fast paced, challenging or dynamic because the culture just doesn’t promote it, rather stomp on it. Between that and the lack of progression it becomes increasingly dull as time goes on with no set goals to aim for. There is minimal reason to go above and beyond past some empty hope of long term progression. A 2-4% pay increase over colleagues who breeze in and out is soul destroying and not worth the effort. To plug gaps of their own making they are increasingly relying on cheap and non-literate IT staff for support. The results are becoming comical. The relaxed environment presented is a facade. Behind closed doors is a ruthless streak of long service employees and managers scratching each other’s backs. If you are experienced, educated and ambitious I’d advise to avoid or at best use them as a stepping stone.
