Hines reviews

If you show any desire to move into other areas of the company they will smile and act like it is possible.... Slim chances. IE: educated engineers have virtually no chance of becoming property management.

In my particular office, senior management likes to keep people in their respective sandboxes. Once you're in a role, there's little chance of transferring to a different side of the business. Management is bloated with people with 25+ years tenure and old-school ideas. Resistant to change, risk averse. Older managers know all and the younger ones are expected to march in step and do work assigned to them. Managing Directors are like equity partners, so they only care that you bust your a*s so they can make money. Very little opportunity for promotion in development/investment unless you are Ivy league MBA with pedigree (they LOVE pedigree). And if you're a woman? Forget it. There are hardly any women in management roles outside of HR or accounting. Highest company executives are an old boys club who have known each other for 35 years. Inner circle, no one else allowed -it's an aristocracy.