good experience with large commercial real estate projects - Engineer CBRE Employee Review

3.0
Mar 19, 2011
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Pros

Large company that has many opportunities for people interested in managing real estate. Can work from home a few days/week

Cons

HR department is incompetent-makes frequent payroll mistakes related to pension contributions and the hr websites are riddled with mistakes and poor programming design. It's obvious that CBRE in Canada doesn't consider the HR department to be very important in terms of employee growth and development. Benefits are barely competitive-monthly benefits costs are excessive. Workload is excessive for the pay but that relates to the account one is working for. No interaction between the various accounts. No company sponsored group get togethers unless employees pay for it themselves.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 26, 2026
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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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