CBRE Reviews

I have been working at CBRE full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great environment, great people. The remote program is great

Cons – The salary is not in line with industry. Hard work is only recognized by a few.

Advice to Senior Management – Align salaries with the industry.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at CBRE full-time for more than a year

Pros – The resources and training within thecompany are good. Benefits are slightly above average. Quality of personnel high.

Cons – Politics abounds and the brokers are treated too well while the ones that get things done aren't acknowledged for their support.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop dwelling on things that are insignificant and focus on the quality of a person's work.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at CBRE part-time for less than a year

Pros – Big company with opportunity for advancement and ability to move within. Internal postings are frequent and access to global network.

Cons – Satellite offices are small with only a few employees. One has to be proactive to be recognized within the firm. If advancement is key you need to get noticed

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at CBRE full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good benefits, strong company and very process oriented.

Cons – Not competitively paying for job requirements and demands.

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in additional support staff to meet growing needs of the client. Particularly if a company/client is in a huge growth mode and people are asked to take on more than is reasonably possible. High turnover is costly too.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at CBRE full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good place to gain experience; people are very welcoming

Cons – lack of guidence and time to bring problems forward, unreliable systems

Advice to Senior Management – Provide a time and place for even the lowest of employee to tell you where the process failiures are and we can all prosper.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at CBRE full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Good company structure and resources

Cons – Sr. management not very supportive, not concerned with employee moral, only bottom line

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at CBRE full-time

Pros – Good compensation, decent benefits, good work/life balance, good people.

Cons – Extremely slow to make decisions, too little investment in technology, too much outsourcing, technical non-developers will likely lose skills as most time is spent in meetings and on vendor management. Seems to be a lot of burnout and turnover.

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in employees

I worked at CBRE full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – The environment was very conducive to gaining experience. The work/life balance was acceptable. Employee were given the opportunity to stand out. The benefits was excellent!

Cons – The culture was a very competitive and the pay was low. The potential for growth was slim. Senior management need a makeover.

Advice to Senior Management – Change is good!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at CBRE full-time for more than a year

Pros – The people in the company are very intelligent and are open to sharing knowledge. Plenty of opportunities to understand the business.

Cons – Depending on role within company, obtaining promotions can be difficult. Developing path to attain more is a bit unclear. and confusing.

Advice to Senior Management – Management direction

I have been working at CBRE full-time for more than a year

Pros – It is a great place to gain experience in accounting. You'll learn to do alot including, preparing and post journal entries, working through the general ledger account, bank recociliations, capital funding, fixed asset depreciation, and putting together a financial report. There are very many opportunities for growth and movement.

Cons – Overworked, underpaid, and understaff. You are given a portfolio of properties to manage. I feel like the quality of work I put forth would be better if I had less properties in my portfolio. Too many properties to manage means I have less time to clean up the mess. During reporting time you will have to work overtime, but instead of paying you overtime if you are hourly, they want you to flex the following week. Several reports are due at the same time. They work you like horse! When you need to go vacation, you cannot do it during reporting time. You can only take vacation when you have an open week with no reports. We get 100+ emails a day, so when you go on vacation, work gets backed up. You have to get as much work done as possible before going on vacation because no one will cover you. You pretty much have to bust you butt to get all your work done before vacation. Then when you get back from vacation you have a crap load of things to follow up on. It's almost not even worth going on vacation. They need to hire more accountants and spread out the properties so that we generate quality accounting services and not feel overwhelmed/overworked. The work/life balance is terrible. You see people working late all the time because we're just overworked. We go home cranky. I postposted part time school because work was taking up my life. I've had coworkers who had to cancel/quit part time jobs that were more recreational jobs because they were so busy working all the time at CBRE.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire more staff. If you want to produce quality accounting services spread the work load by hiring more staff. This should also ease the work/life balance.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend