CBRE reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(12,978 total reviews)
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Robert E. Sulentic

83% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

CBRE has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 12,978 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CBRE employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Bienes raíces industry (3.8 stars).

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1.0
Aug 27, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

NOTHING ! There is nothing good about this company unless you work on a brokerage team. All other departments have a horrible work culture ( especially Property Management / Asset Services )

Cons

3 managers in 2 years, 2 of 3 directors quit, micromanaging and yes-man culture, toxic work environment, 20% underpaid compared with similar positions at Alexandria, Biomed, and Kilroy

1.0
Aug 25, 2019

Stuck in the 90s

Recommend
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Pros

Job security, I suppose. Ideal if you want to perform the same tedious task 9 to 5 for the next 15 years.

Cons

Although senior management say they are always available, they never listen and only try to implement their own, out-dated ideas. Growth by acquisition means there are many conflicting teams all doing the same work, trying to protect their own positions and not providing a service to anyone else.

2.0
Aug 14, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- Pay is good - Depending upon on your team, you may get a reasonable manager (I've had over 5 managers in the 5+ years I've been here)

Cons

- Upper management (includes directors and above) lack transparency - Upper management will not fire bad managers or employees for that matter. They prefer to put you somewhere you don't like, dog you to death and then hope you quit. - High employee turnover - Lack of diversity. Having lots of employees from India is not diversity. The two biggest minorities in the DFW area are Blacks and Hispanics and I've only seen a handful (I can count them on my hands...literally less than 10) in IT. - Lots of movement (between floors, buildings and even cities lately) so where you get hired to work may not be the same in a year or two. Management also does NOT take employee input into consideration when it comes to location. - Capital One employees hired at senior levels. That's where CTO is from so she has hired in her puppets that do her bidding (read: they don't represent YOU; they represent HER) - A bias among upper managers for Amazon's Cloud over Azure despite the fact that we WERE mostly a .NET shop before they arrived. It's the hammer they know from their Capital One days and its the business that suffers with all the chaotic movement (very few features...just a lot of technology changes from their prospective).

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