Foxtons Employee Reviews

Very competitive, good salary if you put in the hours, management team are good and have everything in place, sometimes can get very stressful as well

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A fabulous working environment.

Negotiator (Current Employee) - Central London - 13 September 2023

No two days are the same, with a plethora of learning opportunities from experts in the industry. People are experts in their fields and great company. A day at work is hard work, but great fun.

Pros

Amazing culture, people and opportunities.

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Insights into Foxtons

Based on 26 survey responses

What people like

Clear sense of purpose
Ability to learn new things
Inclusive work environment

Areas for improvement

Time and location flexibility
Overall satisfaction
Trust in colleagues

This is a cult

Rare and Short Lettings Negotiator (Former Employee) - London - 16 August 2023

Rules apply to some and don’t to others, very frustrating and toxic environment on the day to day basis. They’ve recently started employing very young people with no morals, no work ethic and lots of attitude - which completely ruins the positive vibes between everyone. They brag about giving you a company car or the best commission structure in the industry but at the same time you have no work-life balance, and you pay the fuel and car taxes from your salary. Also, 20 days holiday per year with working 5/6 days a week seems a bit unfair. They made us work the bank holidays in May in some offices as well. I could go on and on but I guess the best way to summarise it is - trap. Once you’re there and you taste the money, you are in a toxic trap, literally a cult.

Pros

Good managers, nice rewards if any, good start to the industry

Cons

Long hours, low pay, toxic, lack of morals

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Great job for top earners

Estate Agent (Current Employee) - London - 20 July 2023

A great place to work if you can sacrifice the social life. A low basic salary, which is topped up with phenomenal commission can mean very fluctuating months for income. 5-6 working days a week, with 7pm finishes means that you will have very little time for a social life.

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Great training

Tenancy Manager (Former Employee) - Chiswick, Greater London - 4 July 2023

Brilliant training and development opportunities. Lots of team building and events. Management can put on lots of pressure at times but overall a good place to work.

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Some amazing people in a horribly brutal routine

Sales Negotiator (Current Employee) - London - 19 June 2023

Working for Foxtons can be hugely rewarding and if you are built to withstand an 08:30 till 19:00 day at full tilt then you might love it. The general culture set by the directors is not great, they can be a domineering presence in the day and will scald you for even the smallest of things. Some offices have a wonderful culture and those are the ones that do the best so if you are planning on working at Foxtons, make sure you go to one of the highest grossing offices. The days are very structured and can get very monotonous, the amount of time spent on the phone trying to book viewings is brutal. You spend usually a total of 5 hours in the office every day making calls and sometimes you will just want to bang your head against a wall, the goal is 60 calls a day which doesn't sound too bad, but after 2 months of grinding our calls, everyone has a bit of a crisis and either quits or stays on and finds themselves trapped in the career. The issue with the job is that, if you hit your targets, you can quite easily hit £60K a year, when you make that, you can't move into another job as any other starting salary is going to be about half of that.

Pros

Company Car, Great Training, Management can be great

Cons

Extremely long hours, Pushy directors, Awful end of month meetings

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Toxic enviroment

Lettings Negotiator (Former Employee) - London, Greater London - 6 May 2023

The job can either be good or a nightmare, my team leader made me cry several times by ridiculizing me in front of people. The pay is not great for the amount of hours you work.

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Not a very suitable place to work for

Yard Assistant (Former Employee) - London, Greater London - 1 May 2023

Not very nice place to be work and typically worked very long hours for minimum pay. Not worth the journey to travel and low pay makes it worse. Wouldn’t recommend for

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overworked and underpaid

Sales Assistant (Former Employee) - London, Greater London - 1 May 2023

terrible place to work, overpaid and and overworked, all that management cares about is sales and if you don't reach a certain target goal you are immediately shunned

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Toxic and long hours

Sales Representative (Current Employee) - Marylebone, Greater London - 2 April 2023

Earning potential however the company is pretty toxic and their policies apply to some and don’t to others. Facial hair is not allowed unless it’s a full beard as I refused to shave my moustache and got let go for “performance” even though I was number 2 in my office, out of 6 agents. What’s worse is a colleague in another office at a valuer level has a moustache and is completely fine. It’s all about who is the managements favourite

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Fun workplace

Packer (Current Employee) - Allhallows, Kent - 22 February 2023

Really good company to work for excellent pay and conditions very good management and excellent values. I would recommend anyone to work at this company

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Useless interview

candidate agent (Former Employee) - Chiswick Park Station - 28 January 2023

Had a first interview by phone and was said i was perfect for the job. Was sent to Chiswick headquarters for on site interview with other 50/60 people (All expenses on me). Entering the building you could feel the stress. Very competitive place full of young people. Beginning presentation on how their company is better than everyone. Then you have to talk about yourself or your inspiration in life which seemed odd and didn't give space to tell your previous experience in the field. Then 2 group exercises which are real estate related and you have assessors walking around, grading how much you shout even if you aren't an expert. They just care that you are loud I guess but don't care if you make logical points. Then they send you out in the cold for 1h, no water offered, nothing. You have to figure it out yourself. Then you come back and in a very visible and awkward way they separate the ones that got a follow-up interview from the ones who didn't in two separate rooms. The salary offered is not good for London and it is a very competitive job where they select a LOT of people. Not sure about the quality of the selection. The impression I had from the beginning was that I would not want to work there.

Pros

they give you a car after a week if you get the job

Cons

stressfull

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Awful company to work for

Letting Support Consultant (Former Employee) - Chiswick, Greater London - 19 January 2023

Extremely low salary, lots of company politics. The colleagues that you meet there will be your only reason for staying, making friends for life. However, the management make things very difficult. The constant turnover of staff means there is not enough people to do ALL the work required. Overworked and underpaid and there is no recognition for going above and beyond.

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Not recommend to a friend

Sales negotiator (Current Employee) - London - 15 November 2022

Will sting you when you leave and take your commission through deductions. Wouldn’t recommend to a friend, average pay even when hitting and exceeding targets.

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They will work you to the bone…

Sales Negotiator (Former Employee) - London - 2 November 2022

An awful experience… having to spend most of the day cold calling people, you are constantly monitored on performance and how many calls you make in a day. Constantly required to go to pointless group meetings outside of your own area (1.30hr drive ) to the other side of London at your own cost. They will not provide fuel costs for viewings or these pointless meetings, there is zero work life balance. We don’t even get time to eat lunch. People coming and going is a occurrence at foxtons as they will drop your wage after 6 months. They will work you to the bone and drop you unless your willing to sacrifice all your hours in the day…

Cons

Zero work life balance

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Avoid

Lettings support consultant (Former Employee) - Chiswick, Greater London - 31 October 2022

Avoid, they waste all your time sending you on interviews and phone calls to basically ghost you at the end of all instead of saying to you that you wasn't accepted for the position, I'm not bitter I didn't get the position but as candidates we expect something a bit more professional and to feel appreciated that we did try our hardest to get the role, its very very unlikely you will get accepted there as its too much competition, just take my advice and don't bother as they waste your time and air you ..

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Fast pace

Sales Negotiator (Current Employee) - New homes - 12 October 2022

Great company to work for , amazing training.It can be stressful as it’s very competitive. Providing you a car, there are some company trips as well.Amazing offices

Pros

Providing you a car

Cons

Long hours

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Good eye opener

Lettings Negotiator (Former Employee) - London, UK - 17 August 2022

Good just for some experience not a stable place to work long term It’s good if you’re very young as you get some good perks and you will need the energy to work around the clock as hours are very long

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Interview to to long

Trainee Estate Agent (Former Employee) - Chiswick, Greater London - 6 July 2022

You go for a group interview expecting to be a group of 10-20 people, but when you get there is about 40 people to compete , they do some activities in group and ask some questions while some managers watch you and take notes. After hours doing that they send you for an one hour break. When you come back they select 10 out of 40 to go to one to one interview with the same manager, they ask few questions, the one I spoke was very friendly. They send you home and say that you need to wait for a call to let you know if you will be chosen to go for the third interview or if is the end for you. I don’t know how many people they choose out of 10(I was one of them and they didn’t choose me,also some of the other was sitting there) .. all I know is that they make you waste a lot of time for nothing because your chances of getting hired are minimal possible! ..so don’t waste your time!

Pros

Friendly fake people

Cons

Many hours wasted

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Love working here.

Lettings Negotiator (Former Employee) - London, Greater London - 17 June 2022

I really enjoyed my time at foxtons. It’s very well paid and every day is different. Would benefit offering part time work. That’s the only reason I left.

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Good

Lettings Negotiator (Former Employee) - Brixton, Greater London - 16 June 2022

It was a very nice people to work a lot of good people and commission was good so the money was good. I enjoyed my time at Foxtons but it was time to move on

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