It's all about your management team - Anonymous employee CBRE Employee Review

3.0
May 16, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are a lot of opportunities for growth and most positions are fairly stable. If you are on a "good" GWS account, with a good management team it can be a dream job full of possibilities for growth.

Cons

If you are on a small account or one with a short contract, you better have good management team that is dedicated to helping you improve and look for opportunities. Unfortunately most small accounts are where "new" managers get their feet wet and helping out lower level and middle management team members isn't a priority. Especially if the account is ending or going through drastic changes..

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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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