Pros
I've worked for CBRE for over 12 years and was a wonderful place that I would have recommended up until about 2 years ago and it has nothing to do with COVID. The culture used to mirror it's rise values and make its employees feel like that are the most important key to CBRE's success. It is a large company but has a wonderful training platform and has a lot of other positives. They promote from within regularly and pay well. Not above average but competitive.
Cons
The culture has completely changed and while they still say that their employees are the most important key to their success their actions no longer support their words. Employees are now a commodity and a means to an end. All they care about is meeting their shareholder goals at whatever cost. GWS this year shaved $40M out of their bottom line on the backs of their employees by mid year changing their bonus plan to metrics that were completely unattainable globally. Senior people mid year were told about the new plan and the impact to them was anywhere from $30 - $100k in lost bonus revenue that in the past employees came to rely on annually. There is a small ethics part to this as well since some of the accounts these people were on had bonuses backed into their fix fees and the savings in not paying out the bonuses went straight to the companies bottom line. It is such a shame 2 year ago I would have recommended this company to anyone and walked over hot coals to defend it and today I'm looking for a new position where I feel valued and paid relative to how hard I work. This happened in EMEA the year before with the DCS group and 15 executives walk out the door when the bonus plan was changed mid year without warning and they were impacted financially. When this was brought up this year and managers said that we were going to loose a lot of great staff the answer was "Well we expect that". That is not the CBRE I have worked for for the past 12 years.
