Opportunities for those that want them. - Anonymous employee CBRE Employee Review

4.0
Jan 14, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you're assertive and display an enthusiastic attitude, your efforts are noticed. I was in a staff position and survived an acquisition. I saw this as an opportunity to showcase my abilities and it paid off. I became the right hand to a newly hired manager and was held in high regard by upper management.

Cons

A company this size has a lot of red tape and many hands in the decision making pot. Almost all of the management executives I interacted with were friendly and genuine. There were a few that were on a power trip and extremely self serving and beyond fake.

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Cons

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Pros

Honestly? Not much. The vision insurance was decent, I guess. Truthfully though, there wasn't much.

Cons

Management's refusal to allow employees freedom. I routinely got praise from the client and hit the maximum score on my goals. If things weren't done "by the book", they were wrong. The health insurance was awful. Going to self-employment, one of the things that you hear is that you're going to pay a lot for health insurance. However, I'm actually paying LESS than when I worked for CBRE. When you work for CBRE, don't consider job security something that you're going to have. I saw two employees with 15+ years for the company get laid off, with zero severance and no option to transfer elsewhere, unless they wanted to uproot their families and move states for more work and a pay cut. This is the worst company that I've ever had the displeasure to work for. If you have literally any other option of employment, please consider doing that.

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