Pros
1) Benefits- Good health insurance, healthy food available on every floor, pre- paid metro card, etc. 2) Location- downtown DC, easy access to metro
Cons
1) Pay- It's average at best for what you should be making out of college. 2) Management- Everything is micromanaged. 3) Metrics- Impossible to reach..constantly changing...and many times serve no purpose. 4) Career Growth- Does not exist here. This is a job, not a career. You won't know whether to laugh or cry when you realize that every month or so some idiot from outside who has no relation to real estate and has some laughable "management" experience gets hired as your boss when you've been working for 2-3 years and are still referred to as "trainee". It gets even better when you have to teach those same people how to do their jobs...so they can spit in your face and fire you a couple of months later. Basically, in short, you should get here with the expectation that this is a job...you'll never get promoted or develop your career here. My advice is to try to meet the miniumum goals required for you not to get fired. And definitely look for soemthing else...and look hard. Out of most training classes, less than 5% of people will make it past a year. I noticed from personal experience that most of my class was fired, and there was no way you can blame them. They get unreasonable metrics to meet, and get threatned to get fired anyway if they don't meet them. So they get two options...one, cheat...or two, try to meet their goals, fail, get on a PIP, and eventually get fired. The rest of my class were relentlessly looking for other paths, and most found something by year end. So, if you have no other choice, and you just graduated school, with no job or plans, like most college grads in this economy, go for it. Put in your 6 months to a year, try to please senior management, and use this as a stepping stone to something else. But once you do find something else, get out, and do it fast.