So much potential, so disappointing - Anonymous employee RealPage Employee Review
3.0
10 June 2015
Anonymous employee
Former employee, more than 5 years
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Great co-workers, flexible hours and working arrangements, good for entry level, attractive HQ
Cons
Nepotism, poor leadership, poor communication, bad direction, lack of direction and shifting priorities based on feelings and not data, off-shoring without a plan, unsupportive management and IT, resistant to change
RealPage Response
11y
Thank you for your post and I appreciate you acknowledging your great co-workers. I once had the opportunity to talk with Collin Powell, the great Military Leader. We talked about many things such as Iraq, working for George Bush and what he deemed to be his best leadership advice. He told me " You can never fool the privates. They always know what is really going on." I believe that is what you are saying. Your advice is well worth heeding. Now to your cons, I would offer that the majority of RealPage has a different view of our company direction as evidence by the recent engagement score of 75% positive on clear and promising direction. Overall this is a data driven company. The PMC meetings or daily meetings for the most part all have a data element. I can tell you we have a long term strategy for India and the Philippines and we are executing it to plan. I wish your experience was better and I sincerely wish you nothing but the best in your future endeavors.
Team work and collaboration is key within our team.
Cons
The job is fast pace which I like but I know some find it hard to keep up.
RealPage Response
2w
Thank you for sharing your experience! It's wonderful to hear that teamwork and collaboration are thriving within your team—those are values we truly cherish. We also appreciate your perspective on the fast-paced environment. While we know it's not for everyone, it's great to hear that you find it energizing. We're grateful to have team members like you who embrace the pace and contribute to a strong, collaborative culture. Thank you for being part of the team!
Good engineering tooling.
Talented engineers and teammates.
Flexible remote work.
Cons
I ran one of RealPage's larger engineering product teams for three years, hiring and developing more than half of the engineering managers and engineers on my organization. I believed I was building something that mattered.
Instead of promoting the person already doing the work, leadership hired a lateral engineering manager alongside me. Over time, responsibility stayed with me while authority and support shifted elsewhere. I became the person expected to absorb every problem.
My first manager used me to fill every gap instead of developing me. I was expected to handle support, incident response, production releases, coding, architecture, project management, and people management—all at the same time. My second manager sidelined me, criticized me, and focused on replacing me instead of developing me.
I was once told I was "lucky to be useful, or I wouldn't still be here." That statement summed up the culture.
Leadership expected constant availability while frequently being unavailable themselves. When leadership was out, I was expected to cover. I spent over a year supporting both U.S. and India time zones, making true time off nearly impossible.
RealPage has incredibly talented people, but talented employees cannot overcome a culture where managers are consumed instead of developed. I loved building teams. I just wish the company had valued the people who built them.
RealPage Response
4d
Thank you for sharing such a candid and detailed account of your experience. We're glad the engineering tools, talent, and flexibility of remote work stood out positively, and we take seriously what you've described about being stretched across responsibilities without matching authority or support. No manager should feel they have to absorb everything alone, and your point about developing managers rather than overloading them is well taken. We'd welcome the chance to understand your experience further—please consider reaching out to your HRBP so we can address this directly. Thank you for the years you have invested in building your team.